[mythtv-users] Is Mplayer going away? Anyone seen their WWW site recently?

[Stephen Williams]

On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 11:36:29 -0500, john roberts <homepagez at lycos.com> wrote:
> 
> I went to download the latest version of Mplayer and I found:
> 
> http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/index.html
> 
> They seem to be dealing with legal issues. :(
> 
> -John
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No, they're not having legal issues. There just making some misguided
protest about a subject they clearly don't understand. The software
patents directive is a non-issue blown out of all proportion.

My partner is a eurpoean patent attorney so knows what's really going
on here, i've also spoken to people in her firm about this. This
directive does nothing more than to set into law how patenting of
software is _currently_ handled. The laws which have been applied up
till this point were not designed with software in mind, this is what
is being but right.

Quite simply, the directive is deisgned to maintain the current status
quo with regards to patenting of soatware, the whole point behind it
is that the law is clarrified whilst having _no_ material impact.

Steve