[conspire] Browser 'Wars'

[Ruben Safir]

On 02/10/2011 08:58 PM, Don Marti wrote:
> 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?
>
>   


Giving up on Ogg Vorbis?

Ruben