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| Authored by: timkb4cq on Saturday, April 27 2013 @ 06:15 AM EDT |
Oh, so now setting your opening offer in a negotiation too high is a demand?
And not only a demand but one that allows the firm using your I.P. to not
negotiate at all but run to the courts instead?
Motorola didn't run to the courts demanding an injunction, they just tried to
open negotiations in what used to be the ordinary course of business in such
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, April 27 2013 @ 02:46 PM EDT |
That would depend upon the definition being used for
"open standard":
The definitions of the term "open standard"
used by academics, the European Union and some of its member governments or
parliaments such as Denmark, France, and Spain preclude open standards
requiring fees for use, as do the New Zealand, South African and the
Venezuelan governments. On the standard organisation side, the World Wide Web
Consortium (W3C) ensures that its specifications can be implemented on a
royalty-free basis.
Someone who is against Free Software would be
more than happy to see a minimal royalty rate on a patent. Even a rate of a
single penny per unit being required would preclude the implementation from
being shared freely.
Someone who favors Free Software might just as
soon see prohibitively high royalty rates on patent encumbered, proprietary
solutions so that truly open standards should have a better chance of
garnering widespread adoption.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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