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[Kevin Walsh]

Steve Underwood [steveu at coppice.org] wrote:
> Kevin Walsh wrote:
> > Steve Underwood [steveu at coppice.org] wrote:
> > > Using G.729 without a licence in most of the world's countries is
> > > illegal. 
> > > 
> > Not so.  What you say is only true in countries that allow software
> > patents.  Countries that don't have any restriction on the freedom of
> > ideas, mathematics and business processes etc. would allow the use of
> > G.729 without having to pay the monopolist's tax.
> > 
> > You seem to be confusing the USA with the free world.
> > 
> You seem confused about what is patented in G.729. I don't know of any
> software patents on G.729 
> 
Software patents are generally patents on ideas and/or mathematical
algorithms, both of which are not patentable in a lot of countries,
and rightly so.

If you were trying to express the opinion that the G.729 patents are
somehow enforceable in the free world then you need to work on
expressing your opinions a little more clearly - and preferably with
some justification.

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