[Asterisk-Dev] writing a GPL G.729?

[Steve Underwood]

Race Vanderdecken wrote:

>-SteveK wrote:
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>"That's looking at another extreme altogether. The present copyright and
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>patent systems, as they exist today, don't encourage innovation, as much
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>as they discourage it. They certainly make it nearly impossible for the 
>little guy."
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>So then, you are saying that if a "little guy" does manage to produce a
>new and better algorithm it is then fair for the "big guys" to ignore
>the patent laws and exploit the "little guy's" work, as it is fair for
>the "little guy" to exploit the work of the "big guy."
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>At what point do the courts decide you are a big or little guy? What
>about the regular and husky size guys?
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Your comment seems competely unrelated to what the original poster said. 
Can you try to connect them for us. :-\

Steve