Broadcom are just useless patent trolls at this point.
If you can't get a Renault Megane or Clio in Germany at the moment you can thank them for it somehow, because of their "Method and system for an extended range ethernet line code" software patent (EP1903733).
Software parents should be banned tbh :drgn_drowsy:
Obviously the #zeebo flopped, espechally due to #Qualcomm's #BREW #OS ¹ which is basically '#JavaMobile but worse in order to circumvent #SoftwarePatents' whilst also having dogshit performance and being hard to develop for or even port games to, making it even worse than #Gizmondo or #NGage which used #J2ME.
But even in a starved market like #Brazil most households weren't gonna dump over 1 month minimum wage on an aging #3G-#Cellphone with composite video and 6-button #USB #controllers.
So yeah, blame Qualcomm for this shitshow...
And lets be honest, #Edutainment is not a cash cow because in places like #Mexico it's way easier to get even cheaper #PC|s due to #NAFTA #FreeTrade (i.e. all the stuff #refurbishers couldn't sell in the #USA anymore got offered there before being sold further south...
Needless to say the Zeebo is the strongest argument for #StopKillingGames as these devices are nearly useless these days and piracy is the only way to get / change games on it and play them these days.
Nowadays the nieche of the zeebo is served by cheap #PCs for #gaming even cheaper #Android devices and (aside from few stores like #Steam that managed to upstell a #DRM as a #feature), rampant #piracy to the point that #MobileGaming outside of #iOS is basically dead unless we account #PayToLoose #Shovelware of the "#DisguisedGambingGame" kind as "#Gaming" which is an insult even for #gambling, because there at least in theory, with a honest operator the chance of winning is greater than zero (tho I'd still disrecommend it because no gambling game is *"fair" beyond the theoretical chance of winning by the rules)...
@dalias Say you want the public to benefit from a video codec that's usable by free software in countries where MPEG-LA members hold patents. Would there have been a better way to go about this than how Google released WebM using On2's TrueMotion VP8?
@MiaWinter likely...
I'm just glad #SoftwarePatents like that are null and void in #Germany...
I hope #PatentTrolls like #Rothschild get their asses handed to court.
Espechally when the #PatentTroll's #lawyers farted out "#AIslop" (don't call it a #hallucination, #Mansplainers don't hallucinate either, they know it's wrong and unlike any "#AI" they do have sentience!) in their filings.
The fact that #Valve settled in the past is only due to the #SueHappy nature of #US #courts, where filing nefariously isn't punished and where #settlements are cheaper than fighting for the #truth, with #ShellCompanies being weaponized as disposable shields from harm!
I'm just glad such bs patents are null and void in #Germany because they are neither "new" nor "an actual invention that solves a technical problem"...
#NotLegalAdvice #commentary #sarcasm #PatentTrolling #Patents #SoftwarePatents
PERA Remains A Serious Threat To Efforts Against Bad Patents
I too am shocked and offended.
"In my opinion, none of the three patents I've discussed here should have been allowed. It's shocking and offensive that they were," Sigmon said. "The USPTO dropped the ball big time, and it's going to externalize a lot of uncertainty (and, potentially, litigation cost) onto developers and companies that do not deserve it."
#SoftwarePatents should be #illegal as they only exist to #profit #ValueRemoving #RentSeekers!
Digging through my #Steam library and found a game that I apparently last played in 2014: Symphony (Empty Clip Studios). Basically, an arcade shooter that loads up music from your own music library and lets you shoot some vector things, to the beat.
Problem is, most of the music I have downloaded on this computer is via iTunes, in AAC format. Back in the day I bought the AAC add-on for Symphony, but the problem is, Symphony asks me to install QuickTime. #Apple has deprecated #QuickTime for Windows, so I'm not *too* keen on trying to install it. Also the game says "hey we're not allowed to distribute the decoder" - shit, I paid money for the add-on, what did I pay you guys for back in the day? Apple *sucks*, man.
Guess I'll convert shit to sensible formats after all if I want to play this. Hell, these days I can even use MP3s without feeling bad! Remember: Hella proprietary formats *continue* to screw you over, if not today, then one day in the future.
Virtually the same text - a detailed spec/design document that describes a problem and its technical solution in software - if typed into Word and sent to a patent lawyer, will turn into a patent, if typed into a modern LLM (those reasoning ones using chain-of-thought-reasoning), will turn into software that cannot even be copyrighted.
Yepp the legal system is consistent and reasonable. And not at all a decade behind technology.
@dentangle @librecast @gstreamer (also, I was told that #NetworkCoding, other than a simple XOR, were a patent mine field... so much regarding no #SoftwarePatents in the #EuropeanUnion...)
Petition to have it so Blackmagic Design has Linux users pay separately for AAC audio codec support as an add-on to Resolve Studio so at least there's a way for Linux users to have all the codecs easily if they want them and make it so the cost doesn't have to increase for anyone else. This doesn't excuse patents existing, in this case patents for math, I just want easy AAC usage.
#VideoEditing #Resolve #DaVinciResolve #ResolveStudio #Linux #LinuxVideoEditing #SoftwarePatents
📝 Breaking: Senate considers law to patent "clicking things on screens." Next up: patenting breathing while coding!
PERA bill could let patent trolls claim basic software functions. Even ordering a pizza online could require lawyer consultation.
Contact your Senator before Thursday! #SoftwarePatents #TechPolicy
@PixelProphecy Unless you live in a country that doesn't recognize #SoftwarePatents
I'm not sure how the #Nintendo #Pokemon patent suit against #Palworld would work. #SoftwarePatents do exist in Japan (in fact, explicitly so), but it is still subject to the rule that the invention must be based on "laws of nature".
As I understand it, that's a high bar - a pure software-only claim cannot be patented. (And some pointed out some of the patents could be thrown out on the basis of existing prior arts.)
Software patents are evil, I can imagine to be patented some specific algorithms (such mp3 was) but generic patents such this one, that in theory patented any data analytical engine shall never existed. #softwarepatents #dataanalytics I am really scared to develop any idea. https://patents.google.com/patent/US9275031B2/en
Serious question.
What is a no-cost resource for #counsel #advisory about how to secure one's #intellectualproperty rights in the context of forthcoming release.
Oh. Is that what they mean by software patents? #softwarepatents
I don't know that software patent is relevant.
@Vivaldi
I know nothing of sofware dv, law, copyright, etc. Never cared.
I'm a former music industry dude however, so i might know a little about #copyright already.
:D
