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Subject: Re: [chairs] News today on IBM patents and OASIS
Eduardo, Understood. I was just hoping that someone might be able to flush this a little more out into the open for us! Apparently more patience required.... ; -) We will await some more formal outcomes in due course. Thanks, DW ----- Original Message ----- From: "Eduardo Gutentag" <Eduardo.Gutentag@Sun.COM> To: "David Webber (XML)" <david@drrw.info> Cc: "Chairs OASIS" <chairs@lists.oasis-open.org> Sent: Saturday, April 16, 2005 2:34 PM Subject: Re: [chairs] News today on IBM patents and OASIS > David, > > that's from a week ago, 11 April. > > But more importantly than chronological accuracy, I fail now, as I > failed a week ago, to see how this vague reference to a vague promise > ("this month", "the company said", "free", no quote, no attribution, no > date, no URL) can be construed, as others have done, as having anything > to do with OASIS IPR policy. If that promise has indeed been made (and > I'm not saying it's impossible for it to have been made, I'm only saying > that I've not seen it be made other than this NYT reference) then all it > means is that someone at IBM is talking RF, which is most welcome, but > without specifying whether it's RF on RAND Terms or RF on Limited Terms. > And without that qualification, any further speculation is just that. > > On 04/16/2005 07:17 AM, David Webber (XML) wrote: > > See todays' NYT for an important development from IBM. > > > > http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/11/technology/11ibm.html?pagewanted=2&en=d2b > > > > I find this most welcome - and the article contains many insights > > particularly on Page 2. > > > > There is clearly much more to be done here - including possible fine tuning > > of the > > draft IPR policies to directly encourage others to follow IBM's ground > > breaking > > lead here? > > > > And for OASIS to influence these moves that are afoot worldwide so that > > implementers of OASIS specifications can do so in confidence and in a > > spirit of true open collaboration for the benefit of the industry. > > > > Obviously we will have more opportunity to discuss this in New Orleans! > > > > DW > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > >>Dear colleagues, > >> > >>This morning I was delighted to read in the New York Times that IBM has > >>committed "all of its future patent contributions to the largest standards > >>group for electronic commerce on the Web, the Organization for the > >>Advancement of Structured Information Standards, would be free." [1] > >> > >> > >>[1] > >> > > > > http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/11/technology/11ibm.html?ex=1113883200&en=d2b > > > >>df8df8eca625c&ei=5070 > >> > >> > > > > > > -- > Eduardo Gutentag | e-mail: eduardo.gutentag@Sun.COM > Corporate Standards | Phone: +1 510 550 4616 (internal x31442) > Sun Microsystems Inc. | W3C AC Rep / W3C AB / OASIS BoD >
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