It is an open standard. So everybody can use MP3 in their products. However (and I think that this is the case with blade) the WAY you encode might be patented. The same thing happened a time ago with an encoder for windos when they used the encoding from Frauenhofer. So what might have happened is that blade 'accidently' used the same way to encode as the company now sueing them. Unfortunately for blade, that is not allowed, even if you can prove that you discovered it yourself.
I'm from the Netherlands and the French have this idea that they are alone on the the world at times. They think that they can do anything to "protect" the french econemy (if they have one) from "invaders" (mainly US and asia) We (that is the Netherlands) had this little problem that the french did not like us. We were evil due to our drugs policy, and therefore they tried to do everything possible to make US change OUR laws. This ofcourse did not work. The funniest part of it all is that the french has a bigger probelem with drugs addicts then we have;)
I can also remember not too long ago that the rfench were doing AGAIN a nucluar test on one of the islands in the pacific. The WHOLE world tried to convince them not to do it, and what happened, did they listen? No they did not, they couldn't care less about the restr of the world, they did it.
And now they want to stop another country from doing something, NO WAY. I'm not saying that it is allright to sell those items, but it is not up to France to stop it. There are other channels for this.
But you have to be carefull, otherwise they send in some french legion people to blow up yahoo.com (this is not supposed to be funny, since they have allready done the same with one of the boats from Greenpeace)
I think this whole virus thing is a setup by the the FBI, Metallica and big companies.
- FBI get's credit for "tracking down" the virus writer, and it gets more funds for solving internet crime. - Big companies can sell more anti virus software and at the same time they scare the employees who will not trust email anymore and use it less often - Metallica has released the virus so all THEIR mp3 and scanned covers of cd's get deleted, since they can not shut down napster
(sorry about the spelling mistakes, but I'm not using a typerighter)
If they like Outlook so much with their contact, schedules and the ability for web based clietns, checkout openmail for Linux from HP. Comes with an Outlook plugin, and works pretty much the same as the exchange counterpart. IT also has a web interface, at least for the mail, not sure about the rest. You can download a free evaluation version.
1 - He is serving you, me and everybody else by letting us know how we can protect ourselves from people with his skills. It is not good to live in ignorance by thinking that if you don't hear about it, it does not excist. And yes their might be people who are going to use it, but don't forget the people who are already using it, and don't et caught and are actualy making money out of it (Banks will not admit it, but they do loose a lot of money this way).
2 - How about the most fundamental law in almost every western society : FREEDOM OF SPEECH. We let nazi's talk about their ideas, we have people even in/. telling what their ideas are , so why can't someone, who has commited a crime, and has served his sentence talk about his ideas, whether or not he receives money for it.
Think smart and you should see the right email address
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It is an open standard. So everybody can use MP3 in their products. However (and I think that this is the case with blade) the WAY you encode might be patented. The same thing happened a time ago with an encoder for windos when they used the encoding from Frauenhofer.
So what might have happened is that blade 'accidently' used the same way to encode as the company now sueing them. Unfortunately for blade, that is not allowed, even if you can prove that you discovered it yourself.
I'm from the Netherlands and the French have this idea that they are alone on the the world at times. They think that they can do anything to "protect" the french econemy (if they have one) from "invaders" (mainly US and asia) ;)
We (that is the Netherlands) had this little problem that the french did not like us. We were evil due to our drugs policy, and therefore they tried to do everything possible to make US change OUR laws. This ofcourse did not work. The funniest part of it all is that the french has a bigger probelem with drugs addicts then we have
I can also remember not too long ago that the rfench were doing AGAIN a nucluar test on one of the islands in the pacific. The WHOLE world tried to convince them not to do it, and what happened, did they listen? No they did not, they couldn't care less about the restr of the world, they did it.
And now they want to stop another country from doing something, NO WAY. I'm not saying that it is allright to sell those items, but it is not up to France to stop it. There are other channels for this.
But you have to be carefull, otherwise they send in some french legion people to blow up yahoo.com (this is not supposed to be funny, since they have allready done the same with one of the boats from Greenpeace)
I think this whole virus thing is a setup by the the FBI, Metallica and big companies.
- FBI get's credit for "tracking down" the virus writer, and it gets more funds for solving internet crime.
- Big companies can sell more anti virus software and at the same time they scare the employees who will not trust email anymore and use it less often
- Metallica has released the virus so all THEIR mp3 and scanned covers of cd's get deleted, since they can not shut down napster
(sorry about the spelling mistakes, but I'm not using a typerighter)
If they like Outlook so much with their contact, schedules and the ability for web based clietns, checkout openmail for Linux from HP. Comes with an Outlook plugin, and works pretty much the same as the exchange counterpart.
IT also has a web interface, at least for the mail, not sure about the rest. You can download a free evaluation version.
Not if you're using a nice ad remover within squid. Wroks perfectly :) ;)
But remember to turn it off for Slashdot
I sure hope you're not serious for 2 reasons:
/. telling what their ideas are , so why can't someone, who has commited a crime, and has served his sentence talk about his ideas, whether or not he receives money for it.
1 - He is serving you, me and everybody else by letting us know how we can protect ourselves from people with his skills. It is not good to live in ignorance by thinking that if you don't hear about it, it does not excist. And yes their might be people who are going to use it, but don't forget the people who are already using it, and don't et caught and are actualy making money out of it (Banks will not admit it, but they do loose a lot of money this way).
2 - How about the most fundamental law in almost every western society : FREEDOM OF SPEECH. We let nazi's talk about their ideas, we have people even in
Think smart and you should see the right email address