Fwd: Dailymotion for XO laptop

[Rob Savoye]

tridge at samba.org wrote:

> We really need a open project to do patent analysis of this kind and
> determine which of these key patents (not just codecs, but also other
> important blocking patents) can be avoided, and which ones are too
> tied to the format to avoid. Perhaps the OLPC project would provide a
> good bit of motivation for people to do this type of work?

   As of last week, I've incorporated the Open Media Now! foundation to 
work on issues like this. Our current projects are Gnash and Cygnal 
(Cygnal being our media server). We hope to expand this as I raise 
funding to work on the political and legal aspects. Yes, good lawyers 
are expensive... I do believe that figuring out a clean and legal path 
through this minefield is very important for free software.

	- rob -