Tandberg attempts to patent x264 open source algorithm
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Tandberg attempts to patent x264 open source algorithm
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Re: Tandberg attempts to patent x264 open source algorithm
#2That is freaking bizarre, curious about the follow up on this. I think someone is about to loos his job
Re: Tandberg attempts to patent x264 open source algorithm
#3That is freaking bizarre, curious about the follow up on this. I think someone is about to loos his job
No need - lying on a patent application is perjury.
And it's a federal court - remember not to drop the soap in the shower!
Re: Tandberg attempts to patent x264 open source algorithm
#4Tandberg was acquired earlier this year by Cisco, if anyone has any Cisco contacts it might be worth bringing this to their attention as Cisco may not be aware of this as it happened prior to their acquisition.
Cisco HR peeps have been quite active in the UK developer community recruiting for Tandberg recently, I'll forward this to one of them to see if can get some attention.
Re: Tandberg attempts to patent x264 open source algorithm
#5That is freaking bizarre, curious about the follow up on this. I think someone is about to loos his job
No need - lying on a patent application is perjury. And it's a federal court - remember not to drop the soap in the shower!
This waste of carbon isn't worthy of scrubbing Knuth's toilet, and I'm all for drumming him out of tech for life. But our neglect of security in prisons isn't funny.
Re: Tandberg attempts to patent x264 open source algorithm
#6Another prove that software patents should be abolished.
Re: Tandberg attempts to patent x264 open source algorithm
#7Another prove that software patents should be abolished.
By similar logic, copyright should be abolished because someone plagiarised their final English paper?
People will always abuse any system, but that doesn't mean the system should be taken away from everyone else. I don't like software patents, but this is not a software patent issue. It's an "intellectual dishonesty" issue -- taking credit for someone else's work.
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#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
No need - lying on a patent application is perjury. And it's a federal court - remember not to drop the soap in the shower!
This waste of carbon isn't worthy of scrubbing Knuth's toilet, and I'm all for drumming him out of tech for life. But our neglect of security in prisons isn't funny.
But software patents are bad so this one guy deserves all the blame! Not his bosses who pressured him to do it, not the system that set up a framework for claiming ownership of ideas... no, this is all his fault, and it's worse than murder! Death penalty!!!
Re: Tandberg attempts to patent x264 open source algorithm
#9Another prove that software patents should be abolished.
By similar logic, copyright should be abolished because someone plagiarised their final English paper? People will always abuse any system, but that doesn't mean the system should be taken away from everyone else. I don't like software patents, but this is not a software patent issue. It's an "intellectual dishonesty" issue -- taking credit for someone else's work.
The problem is that it was worth Tandberg's effort to put together and submit this fraudulent patent application. Enough applications like this get granted, and later go unchallenged or get upheld, that Tandberg had a reasonable expectation that they would get a patent to extort money out of somebody or scare competitors out of competing with them.
Software patents need to be harder to get, easier to overturn, and there need to be steep incentives to not submit invalid applications.
Re: Tandberg attempts to patent x264 open source algorithm
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
This waste of carbon isn't worthy of scrubbing Knuth's toilet, and I'm all for drumming him out of tech for life. But our neglect of security in prisons isn't funny.
But software patents are bad so this one guy deserves all the blame! Not his bosses who pressured him to do it, not the system that set up a framework for claiming ownership of ideas... no, this is all his fault, and it's worse than murder! Death penalty!!!
Stab him with parenthesis! Smash his fingers in a Turing machine!