VLC & European Patents 421
CaptScarlet22 writes " VideoLAN is seriously threatened by software patents due to the
numerous patented techniques it implements and uses. Also threatened
are the many libraries and projects which
VLC is built upon, like
FFmpeg, and the other fellow Free And Open Source software
multimedia players, which include
MPlayer,
xine,
Freevo,
MythTV,
gstreamer."
This is exactly why... (Score:5, Funny)
Does This mean .. (Score:2, Funny)
Re:what about MS patents? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:a huge step backwards (Score:3, Funny)
Maybe they don't like digital multimedia in Europe so they want no media players available at all. It seems like that is what they are going to wind up with.
Re:This is exactly why... (Score:1, Funny)