BBC NEWS | Business | Patent row could hit MP3 industry

Ramblings / February 26, 2007 / John / 0

This is so far beyond irony that it’s actually painful. To think that the biggest advocates of immoral software patenting are being stung by their own greed is a much needed indication that there is some justice in the world after all 🙂 Perhaps Microsoft should have spent more time keeping its own house in order, rather than coding new ways of restricting what people are allowed to do with their own computers.

BBC NEWS | Business | Patent row could hit MP3 industry
News that Microsoft has been fined for violating MP3 patents belonging to Alcatel-Lucent could have widespread fallout for the industry.

John

UNIX geek, wannabe cook, musician, book-lover, and all round good-guy.