Microsoft warns of danger to digital music after record $1.5bn fine
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| Microsoft was yesterday fined a record $1.52bn (£777m) for
| infringing a digital music patent which could throw into doubt
| the future of the digital music industry.
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What a drama queen. One can just use Ogg Vorbis, which is Open Source and
royalty free. The big winner in this lawsuit is OSS/Linux, assuming it
doesn't lead to retaliation/precedence. During the trial, even Microsoft
(perhaps foolishly) admitted that software patents make no sense.
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