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Tandberg attempts to patent open source code-> 0

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 25 2010, @05:59PM

An anonymous reader writes "As if the current situation with software patents wasn't bad enough, it appears a new phenomenon is emerging: companies are watching the commit logs of open source projects for ideas to patent. In this case, Tandberg filed a patent that was step-by-step identical to an algorithm developed by the x264 project — a mere two months after the original commit. The particular algorithm is a useful performance optimization in a wide variety of video encoders, including Theora."
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Comment: Re:.iso image file for GPL RH 6.0? (Score 1) 194

by Holger on Monday May 03 1999, @05:48AM (#1907250) Attached to: Free Red Hat 6.0 CDs

Unfortunately, the RedHat CD HOW-TO only details bootable CDs for Intel (which isn't hard to do anyway). But does anybody know where I can get reliable information on the creation of bootable CDs for Sparc and Alpha? I got some bits and pieces together, but since I don't have Alpha/Sparc hardware for testing available, I'm pretty much out in the dark here and my CDs for these architectures currently are not bootable.