[Asterisk-Users] Sprint Nextel sueing over VoIP patents

[Kevin Walsh]

trixter http://www.0xdecafbad.com [trixter at 0xdecafbad.com] wrote:
> Sprint Nextel is sueing vonage, voiceglo and theglobe.com for infringing
> on VoIP patents.  Sprint Nextel claims to have about 100 patents on VoIP
> technologies.  Does anyone know which ones this article is talking
> about, and if so does asterisk have any of those features?
> 
> The reason I am asking is that the article is vague, Vonage uses a
> fairly standard codec set, I dont know about the others.  So if its not
> codecs I wonder if its something so generic that the patent would be
> tossed out upon challenge. 
> 
> Anyone thinking about doing a VoIP business may want to get more info
> before proceeding since they may not have the millinos vonage has to
> fight this. 
> 
Marvellous.  Another company with a monopoly over aspects of VoIP
technology.  I don't have the millions required to mount a defence
in a North American court, so I should just consider myself lucky that
I live in a free country.

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