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Open Standards â redefined?
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| For years and years I am using and
| promoting the term Open Standards. And it
| has always been very clear what an Open
| Standard is and, more important, what it is
| not.
|
| You can go through various defintions of
| Open Standards:
|
| * Free Software Foundation Europe
| * European Interoperability Framework
| (v1)
| * Digistan
| * Danish Parliament
| * Bruce Perens
|
| And no matter what differences you find in
| those definitions, they all agree on some
| crucial points, the most important being
| the freedom to use and implement the
| standard without having to ask for
| permission or having to pay license fees
| for the use of an Open Standard.
|
| [...]
|
| If you agree this far, pay special
| attention to this:
|
| Currently, the Chinese companies using
| technologies detained by European
| companies are not allowed to enter into
| negotiations on the amount of royalties
| due to the latter, when they use their
| essential patents in the framework of
| open standards. The situation is highly
| detrimental to European companies and
| their complaint has been reflected in
| the European Chamber of Commerce in
| China (EUCCC) â IPR Working Groupâs
| Position Paper 2005. The Commission
| therefore urged the Chinese government
| to take action in order to ensure that
| those royalties are duly paid by
| Chinese companies.
|
| Hartmut Pilch from FFII pointed my
| attention to this and added some valuable
| comments here.
|
| Bottom line is â DG Trade, represented by
| Mr. Luc Pierre Devigne, seems to use the
| term Open Standards in a way that is simply
| not compatible with the accepted definition
| of Open Standards. Royalty payments on Open
| Standards can simply not exist in my view.
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http://jan.wildeboer.net/2010/03/open-standards-redefined/
Recent:
ACTA Supporters - UKIP named and shamed
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| The result was a massive landslide in favour
| of open government and internet freedom. 636
| MEPs were on the side of freedom, and just 10
| voted in favour of ACTA.
|
| I can now name and shame those 10, people who
| were elected to represent us, but who want us
| to be governed by a secret worldwide clique
| where the RIAA call the shots and politicians
| are too scared to tell the public what they
| are signing us up to. The list in full is:
|
| * Nigel Farage (United Kingdom, UKIP)
| * Marta Andreasen (United Kingdom, UKIP)
| * Stuart Agnew (United Kingdom, UKIP)
| * Gerard Batten (United Kingdom, UKIP)
| * John Bufton (United Kingdom, UKIP)
| * Trevor Colman (United Kingdom, UKIP)
| * The Earl of Dartmouth (United Kingdom,
| UKIP)
| * Mike Nattrass (United Kingdom, UKIP)
| * Paul Nuttall (United Kingdom, UKIP)
| * Nicole Sinclaire (United Kingdom, UKIP)
|
| Just 16 politicians couldn't make their minds
| up and abstained. They include:
|
| * Diane Dodds (Northern Ireland,
| Democratic Unionist Party)
| * Nick Griffin (United Kingdom, BNP)
| * Andrew Henry William Brons (United
| Kingdom, BNP)
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http://www.pirateparty.org.uk/blog/2010/mar/10/acta-supporters-ukip-named-and-shamed/
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