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Microsoft and Apple stole our technology
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| Emblaze, whose companies include Magic
| Software and Matrix IT, said that the
| Vole's IIS Smooth Streaming system and
| Apple's HTTP Live Streaming application use
| its technology.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1591519/microsoft-apple-stole-technology
Emblaze Brings Patent Infringement Suite against Microsoft, Apple
http://legal.tmcnet.com/topics/legal/articles/75346-emblaze-brings-patent-infringement-suite-against-microsoft-apple.htm
Emblaze claims iPhone and Windows infringe video streaming patent
http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2010/02/11/240278/emblaze-claims-iphone-and-windows-infringe-video-streaming.htm
Emblaze Set To Sue Microsoft, Apple Over Claimed Patent Infringements
http://www.itproportal.com/portal/news/article/2010/2/11/emblaze-set-sue-microsoft-apple-over-claimed-patent-infringements/
EMBLAZE NOTIFIES MICROSOFT OF INFRINGEMENT OF EMBLAZE PATENT
http://www.emblaze.com/inc/ajax/media.rns.showSingle.asp?id=1265804315nPRrA1206a
Ubuntu and Multimedia Patents: An Introduction by
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| Patented codecs are also unlike other non-
| free software upon which many Linux users
| rely because they have completely GPL-
| compatible equivalents that work just as
| well. Proprietary graphics and wireless
| drivers are necessary because no equally
| functional open-source drivers exist; in
| contrast, the Ogg Vorbis audio codec and
| Ogg Theora video compressor function just
| as well by most measures as the proprietary
| codecs, such as mp3 and the mpegs, that
| they seek to replace.
|
| In theory, the whole world should compress
| audio and video files using only free and
| open-source algorithms. But it doesnât.
| The reality is that playback for mp3s and
| mpegs is as essential for most Ubuntu users
| as compatibility with Microsoft Office file
| formats in OpenOffice.
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http://www.workswithu.com/2010/02/11/ubuntu-and-multimedia-patents-an-introduction/
Recent:
Black Duck patents OSS software license conflict analysis
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| Bradley Kuhn, the technology director of
| the Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC)
| expressed dismay this week after learning
| that Black Duck Software was granted a
| patent that covers software methods for
| detecting and resolving open source
| software licensing conflicts. Kuhn, who
| plays a major role in the SFLC's GPL
| enforcement efforts, contends that Black
| Duck's patent is far from novel and
| describes techniques that he has been using
| for licensing compliance analysis for over
| a decade.
|
| Black Duck was founded in 2002 with the aim
| of providing automated solutions for
| tracking the provenance of source code in
| applications. The company's first product,
| called Protex, reached the market at a time
| when the software industry was being
| confronted by emerging legislation and
| high-profile litigation that raised
| concerns about software licensing
| practices. At the time, the ill-fated SCO
| trial was just starting to heat up and
| there were still unanswered questions about
| whether the newly-passed Sarbanes-Oxley Act
| would require more rigorous internal audits
| of software licensing. Black Duck turned
| the industry's fear over these issues into
| a marketing tool and became one of the
| leading vendors in the compliance
| management market.
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http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2010/02/black-duck-patents-software-license-conflict-analysis.ars
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