Dean Anderson wrote: ...
When the open-source tide really turns, and the best quality source code and technology is free, then it will be subject to theft of the sort where it is made improperly not-free. Then it will be the open-source community that is trying to enforce the copyright and possibly even patent law. That is why alterations must be careful.
s/When/If/ if you want this statement to be read without laughter.
But you're right, of course. If *you* held all the software patents, *you* could decide who got to use them.
Meanwhile, the IETF process deals with the real world, not with hypotheticals.
Brian
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