[conspire] Browser 'Wars'

[Don Marti]

begin Rick Moen quotation of Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 05:24:49PM -0800:

> So, valiant try, W3 Consortium, and the fatal problems aren't your
> fault.  I'll be interested when the patents run out.

Speaking of which, isn't the MP3 format now 20 years
old, which would mean that any _essential_ patents
would be expiring this year or next?  (Not that
every encoder becomes safe this year, just that you
should be able to do a decode and a basic encode,
so you could make a podcast listenable on a cheap
device or "MP3 CD" this year.)  Since I have a "face
for podcasting" I'm more interested in audio than
video patents anyway.  Anyone heard about the MP3 in
2011/2012 story one way or the other?

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Don Marti                    
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