I was speaking to patent-holders generally, and not you personally. The negotiations we have had together are the template for how a patent-holder and a community might potentially work together. Should not have used 'you' in this context. Sorry.
-FT On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 6:19 AM, Stephen Beller <sbel...@nhds.com> wrote: > Although it's easy to resent your implication of duplicity (trickery), I do > understand your practical, though rigid, position. > Thanks, > Steve > > --- In openhealth@yahoogroups.com, fred trotter <fred.trot...@...> wrote: > > > > On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 3:29 PM, Stephen Beller <sbel...@...> wrote: > > > > > Fred, > > > > > > This is encouraging and I wish you great success! > > > > > > Two questions: > > > > > > 1. How do you define "hybrid vendors" and distinguish them from FOSS > > > vendors? > > > > > > Anyone who makes money by supporting FOSS AND by selling proprietary > health > > software. > > > > > > > > > > 2. What roll, if any, do you see for companies having patented > > > methodologies? > > > > > > That is largely uncharted territory, but in general I would like to treat > > that in a similar fashion to hybrid vendors. They will be included and > > welcomed, while their slight bias against our core values will be > explicitly > > labelled. > > > > In my experience the FOSS community does not like to treated > condescendingly > > or tricked. If a vendor disagrees with some of our values, but still > wants > > to work with us in those areas that they agree with us, we should make > that > > fall over easy for them to do. I would think the same would hold true to > > patents. Do not try to trick us into implementing something that you are > > going to later try and charge us for, use standard FOSS patent licensing > > techniques and we should be just fine. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Thanks, > > > Steve Beller > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Fred Trotter > > http://www.fredtrotter.com > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > > > > ------------------------------------ > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > -- Fred Trotter http://www.fredtrotter.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
