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Wigital: Interoperability - Open Source, Sun Java, Novell Linux and Microsoft
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| Microsoft patenst in these protocols will be made available on RAND terms at
| very low royalty rates Covenant not to sue open source developers for
| development and non-commercial distribution of implementations of these Open
| Protocols.
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http://www.digitalmajority.org/forum/t-67212/wigital:interoperability-open-source-sun-java-novell-linux-and-microsoft
ScienceDirect: Acceptable protection of software intellectual property: a
survey
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| The article reports the results of a survey on the optimal legal way to
| protect developers' rights to their intellectual property in the US. Two
| groups were incorporated: software developers and attorneys. The majority of
| both groups favor copyright as the legal method, but attorneys prefer
| patenting with a longer protection period.
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http://www.digitalmajority.org/forum/t-67054/sciencedirect:acceptable-protection-of-software-intellectual-property:a-survey
Recent:
2008-04-02 Royalty Free versus Reasonable and Non Discriminatory Licensing
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| Now, here an example of a RAND (Reasonable And Non Discriminatory) licensing
| model, this one has been made by Cisco about VRRP :
|
| Cisco is the owner of US patent No. 5 473 599, relating to the subject matter
| of "Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol for IPv6
| <draft-ietf-vrrp-ipv6-spec-04.txt>. If technology in this document is
| included in a standard adopted by IETF and any claims of this or any other
| Cisco patent are necessary for practicing the standard, any party will be
| able to obtain a license from Cisco to use any such patent claims under
| reasonable, non-discriminatory terms to implement and fully comply with the
| standard.
|
| First you need to contact Cisco to have a license but the terms are
| unknown. "Non-discriminatory" is vague and could be an issue for any free
| software implementation.
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http://www.foo.be/cgi-bin/wiki.pl/2008-04-02_Royalty_Free_versus_Reasonable_and_Non_Discriminatory_Licensing
Rambus Court: “Price Raising Deception” Not Competitive Harm
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| By the time Rambus announced its patents and began demanding royalties (and
| filing patent infringement suits against companies that refused to pay
| royalties), Rambus had achieved a technical “lock-in” that made it difficult
| for the memory chip industry to move to a different technology. Rambus’s
| lock-in allowed it to obtain a 90% market-share, and demand supracompetitive
| royalties from companies that were producing JEDEC-compliant memory devices.
| Rambus has earned several billion dollars in licensing fees to date, and by
| some estimates its total royalties are could reach as high as $11 billion.
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http://www.masslawblog.com/?p=179
Related:
Nokia to W3C: Ogg is proprietary, we need DRM on the Web
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| But remember, that's not what Nokia is objecting to: they are arguing that
| Ogg is proprietary (it isn't) and that DRM should be part of a Web standard
| (it shouldn't).
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http://www.boingboing.net/2007/12/09/nokia-to-w3c-ogg-is.html
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