www/gnu thegnuproject.html

[Richard M. Stallman]

CVSROOT:        /web/www
Module name:    www
Changes by:     Richard M. Stallman <rms>       17/06/25 08:40:06

Modified files:
        gnu            : thegnuproject.html 

Log message:
        Talk about expiration of MP3 patents.

CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/gnu/thegnuproject.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.85&r2=1.86

Patches:
Index: thegnuproject.html
===================================================================
RCS file: /web/www/www/gnu/thegnuproject.html,v
retrieving revision 1.85
retrieving revision 1.86
diff -u -b -r1.85 -r1.86
--- thegnuproject.html  16 Jun 2017 05:56:20 -0000      1.85
+++ thegnuproject.html  25 Jun 2017 12:40:06 -0000      1.86
@@ -857,7 +857,8 @@
 patent is invalid, and we can look for alternative ways to do a job.
 But each of these methods works only sometimes; when both fail, a
 patent may force all free software to lack some feature that users
-want.  What will we do when this happens?</p>
+want.  After a long wait, the patents expire (the MP3 patents are
+expected to have expired by 2018), but what will we do until then?</p>
 <p>
 Those of us who value free software for freedom's sake will stay with
 free software anyway.  We will manage to get work done without the
@@ -1057,7 +1058,7 @@
 
 <p class="unprintable">Updated:
 <!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2017/06/16 05:56:20 $
+$Date: 2017/06/25 12:40:06 $
 <!-- timestamp end -->
 </p>
 </div>