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Re:Kvazaar HEVC/H.265 encoder released under GPLv2 by aroch on Wednesday January 29, 2014 @03:48PM (#7146754)
>Being upheld by a court does not mean something is a good patent.

The only good patent is the one that stands up in court.

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Re:Kvazaar HEVC/H.265 encoder released under GPLv2 by Dylan16807 on Wednesday January 29, 2014 @04:33PM (#7147106)
You're just being snarky and not actually playing a game of semantics, right? Patent that progresses the arts vs. patent that makes money, regulation tries to make these ideas correlate as much as possible but there are flaws.
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