Re:It’s Opus, it rocks and now it’s an audio codec standard
by azakai on Tuesday September 11, 2012 @08:15PM
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> No matter how many times I'm downvoted, it's still not unencumbered.
Who said you were wrong? Quite the opposite, I strongly agreed with you - anything can be encumbered, and anything includes this.
But the point is that Opus is as safe as you can possibly be from being patent encumbered. Everything is potentially encumbered, but there are things with higher or lower likelihoods. And there isn't any lower than Opus. If this is still too worrying for you to use, then you can't use any software at all.
Who said you were wrong? Quite the opposite, I strongly agreed with you - anything can be encumbered, and anything includes this.
But the point is that Opus is as safe as you can possibly be from being patent encumbered. Everything is potentially encumbered, but there are things with higher or lower likelihoods. And there isn't any lower than Opus. If this is still too worrying for you to use, then you can't use any software at all.