www/philosophy google-engineering-talk.html

[Therese Godefroy]

CVSROOT:        /webcvs/www
Module name:    www
Changes by:     Therese Godefroy <th_g> 18/01/04 08:06:22

Modified files:
        philosophy     : google-engineering-talk.html 

Log message:
        Add a note about expired MP3 patents.

CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/philosophy/google-engineering-talk.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.21&r2=1.22

Patches:
Index: google-engineering-talk.html
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RCS file: /webcvs/www/www/philosophy/google-engineering-talk.html,v
retrieving revision 1.21
retrieving revision 1.22
diff -u -b -r1.21 -r1.22
--- google-engineering-talk.html        18 Nov 2016 06:31:39 -0000      1.21
+++ google-engineering-talk.html        4 Jan 2018 13:06:21 -0000       1.22
@@ -1395,7 +1395,7 @@
 And someone has a patent he claims covers JPEG format and is actually
 suing a bunch of companies. And then there's a patent on MP3 audio, so
 that the free software MP3 encoders have been driven underground in the
-US. That's why people should switch to Ogg Vorbis format. And then, if
+US [<a href="#ft1">1</a>]. That's why people should switch to Ogg Vorbis 
format. And then, if
 you look at, say, MPEG-2 video, there are 39 different US patents said
 to cover aspects of MPEG-2. So there are a lot of such problems.</p>
 
@@ -1690,6 +1690,12 @@
 
 <p>[Applause]</p>
 
+<h4>Footnote</h4>
+
+<ol>
+<li id="ft1">All the patents on MP3 will have expired by 2018.</li>
+</ol>
+
 </div><!-- for id="content", starts in the include above -->
 <!--#include virtual="/server/footer.html" -->
 <div id="footer">
@@ -1730,7 +1736,7 @@
 
 <p class="unprintable">Updated:
 <!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2016/11/18 06:31:39 $
+$Date: 2018/01/04 13:06:21 $
 <!-- timestamp end -->
 </p>
 </div>