On Fri, 8 Oct 2004, Michael Krause wrote:
> Spec for free or spec for a price - neither grants anyone rights to any > IP contained within the specifications or on the technologies that > surround the specification. The change in spec cost, while clearly > unfortunate, has no impact on the IP rights. IP rights are defined by > the IBTA membership agreement (just like they are for PCI and any number > of other technologies used within the industry). If you want to > implement a technology, then you have to be a member of the appropriate > organization and agree to the same industry-wide terms that others do. > Hence, this problem is not IB-specific but a fact of life within the > industry. funny, I don't recall these problems with Ethernet. > Again, this is true of many technologies not just IB. For example, if a > company has patents on PCI Express and someone implements a device / > chipset / whatever and they are not part of the PCI-SIG, then they can > be subject to different terms than someone who is a member of the > PCI-SIG. In both cases, the access to specs, etc. has nothing to do > with IP licensing. sorry, I think about protocol software differently than chips. Maybe I'm thinking incorrectly here. ron _______________________________________________ openib-general mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general To unsubscribe, please visit http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general