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A 25-year-old Brazilian video patent just expired, ending a lingering legal headache for Linux (www.xda-developers.com)

submitted 2 weeks ago by monica_b1998@lemmy.world to c/linux@programming.dev

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[–] picnic@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Ohh siemens ag are the baddies? I just bought their stock. I wouldnt have, had I known about this.

[–] professor_prime@lemmychan.org 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Buy stock in the companies you want to succeed, and short the ones you want to see fail.

[–] lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 week ago

We are on Lemmy, do we want any company to "succeed"?

[–] phailhaus@piefed.social 1 points 1 week ago

As a general rule, somebody is going to patent every aspect of these formats. They haven't been demanding licensing fees from open projects, so they aren't being baddies. The fact that they could kept a lot of projects from including direct support.