[Red5] RTMP is patented by Adobe?

[Dan Rossi]

Im also seeing suggestions of patents of the same protocol for  
something else

RTMP (Routing Table Maintenance Protocol)

Or unless thats the same ? I would have thought the patent covers the  
protocol name aswell.

On 07/03/2008, at 1:48 PM, Dan Rossi wrote:

> What a waste of a couple of years ey ?
>
> You aren't selling a product maybe services, they will reign down on  
> Wowza first before anyone else I reckon. Such backward thinking  
> people adobe are. They really should be encouraging open source, and  
> working with the team. So people who want fairly stable finished  
> products that hosting and system admins can manage can go with FMS  
> or who want heavily customisable bleeding edge and heavily supported  
> solutions go with open source.
>
> I am aware however of very touchy open source projects who see the  
> flash platform as very closed source and want to venture into fully  
> open source server / client solutions like ogg.
>
> I wished the platform stayed with Macromedia or whoever Macromedia  
> 'acquired' it from, Allaire maybe ? hahaha.
>
> I'm thinking it's their backup just in case the market crashes, take  
> a look at that eula case against microsoft for instance, those  
> people use industry damaging patents as their sole income, just like  
> all those law suits. I HATE patents.
>
>
> On 07/03/2008, at 1:31 PM, Giovanni wrote:
>
>> If patented, then red5 and others will be hugely impacted. how  
>> could red5 be used without using the protocol?
>>
>> But that could be expected. Now with h264, why would adobe give  
>> away the farm for free?
>>
>> The question would be if it the protocol can be licensed. If it can  
>> be licensed, then the only path would be for the red5 team to  
>> obtain such license.
>>
>> No RTMP=NO FLASH CLIENT
>>
>>
>> On Mar 6, 2008, at 6:08 PM, Steven Gong wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>> Take a look at this blog: http://www.flashcomguru.com/index.cfm/2008/3/6/rtmp-patent
>>>
>>> Don't know what impact will be on us... Any lawyer here for help?
>>>
>>> -- 
>>> Best Regards
>>> Steven Gong
>>>
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