Re: [OS:N:] Cloning technology

[Chris Spencer <chris forevergalleries com>]

Patents.  

You can't reverse engineer around a patent.

Besides, it's not like we don't have open codecs.  They just aren't the
accepted standard.  

If all users wanted and cared about open standards then all the issues
would just go away.  However, the only people with a vested enough
interest to care are the content owners which are invariably concerned
primarily with making money and keeping their content locked up so they
can keep making money on it.

-Chris


On Mon, 2005-06-20 at 13:01 -0400, Peter Quiring wrote:
> I have an idea (not sure if this is valid) but why don't we clone other 
> technology just like Compaq and AMD has cloned IBM and Intel respectively.
> 
> I seen this on TV once before.  To legally "clone" something you need 
> two groups of engineers.  The first group takes a product and 
> reverse-engineers it writting all findings into a document.  Then you 
> pass this document to another group that has never attempted to 
> reverse-engineer the product.  From the document made by the first 
> group, the second group builds a clone of the product.  This legal 
> loophole has allowed Compaq to make the first IBM clone.
> 
> With this, we could create clones of MPEG, and other technologies for 
> the Open Source community.
> 
> Anyways, just my thought.
> 
> Peter Quiring <pquiring geocities com>
> 
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