On Sun, 2005-02-20 at 14:56 +0000, Robin Green wrote: > On Sun, Feb 20, 2005 at 01:17:12PM +0000, Graham Seaman wrote: > > Apparently the BSA are complaining to the EU about the new standards > > definition > > including royalty-free use as a precondition. > > > > http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/02/18/bsa_open_standard/ > > I'm not sure why they give DHCP as an example of something that is not > a royalty-free standard, given that the specification is freely > available as an RFC and it even has open source implementations. > There are vendor extensions, but it is misleading to say DHCP would not be > in accordance with these new European Commission guidelines, surely. > I must have been half asleep when I sent the first mail in this thread - I saw (and wrote) 'BSA' but for some reason what popped into my head was 'BCS'. Well , of course the BSA are against open standards and open source - it's their raison d'etre. Doh. And logical arguments aren't something I'd really expect from them, either.
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