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| Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, July 07 2012 @ 02:17 AM EDT |
| As I thought too. BTW it's now been demoted from the front page to the
technology one. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, July 07 2012 @ 04:03 AM EDT |
'No simple answer'
I can think of one: make any
patent or specification required to fulfil any standard (either a de jure
or a de facto standard) public domain for implementation, ie the
licensing fee is zero, nilch, bada, nothing.
When the standard is being
set up, the IP holder has the right to refuse to allow the Imaginary Property to
be used in the standard, but if they push/allow it, then they agree to a free
licence to anyone wanting to implement the standard: want to implement GIF? you
get a free licence to LZW compression (ok, I know the patent has run out, but it
would have solved all the problems it had); want to implement OOXML? you get a
free licence to all the patents/IP that encumber it; want to implement the de
facto standard FAT for your filesystem? you get a free licence to any
Imaginary Property that might encumber it.
Simples![ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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