"Noel J. Bergman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> NO ONE should be permitted to have IP rights over public
> infrastructure standards, except for the body charged with
> protecting them for the public. Open Standards must be just that:
> OPEN.
Oh, I wholeheartedly agree! I just wanted to point ou
Noel J. Bergman wrote:
As far as I am concerned, it would be desirable for the W3C should have a
copyright on HTML, XML, etc., and be able to deny the right to use those
standards to anyone claiming IP rights over them. Other standards bodies
should likewise adopt a policy to protect their standar
David,
... what if some other big player were to
acquire or merge with us? What if only one best-of-breed
browser could run embedded plug-ins, applets, ActiveX
controls, or anything like them, and it wasn't IE? How
competitive would the other
Brian Behlendorf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Thu, 4 Sep 2003, Noel J. Bergman wrote:
> > With respect to the mess of software patents, here is an example where
> > initially most people laughed, "Ha ha, they fed Microsoft!", until it
> > slowly began to dawn on people that this is a huge
On Wed, 3 Sep 2003 10:32:07 +0100
Thom May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Any ASF member can commit to the main www.apache.org website.
Aha, this explained enough. -- member -- oh, that's right.
Thanks for the explanation.
-- Tetsuya ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
P.S. Then, I can not figure out the raiso
> Is there any indication yet that Eolas intends to enforce this patent on
> any open source or free software projects?
>From their attorney's web site (and from the UC web site):
Q. Won't this patent put a stranglehold on the Internet?
A. UC seeks fair compensation for the use of the technology
On Thu, 4 Sep 2003, Noel J. Bergman wrote:
> With respect to the mess of software patents, here is an example where
> initially most people laughed, "Ha ha, they fed Microsoft!", until it
> slowly began to dawn on people that this is a huge problem.
Is there any indication yet that Eolas inten
