At 01:13 26-10-2007, Norbert Bollow wrote:
The question is this: Is copyleft open source / free software so
unimportant with regard to any area of internet standards that it
would be justifiable to adopt any specification with fundamentally
incompatible patent situation as a standards-track RFC?
The better question would be: Are Internet standards so unimportant
that copyleft open source /free software developers don't participate
in the process?
Letter-writing campaigns may not be the best way to influence the
process (see RedPhone incident).
Patents do raise some concerns about interoperability in regards to
open source/free software. From a technical point of view, there is
nothing that prevents implementation if the specifications are
available. But then, we are taking a narrowed view of interoperability.
Regards,
-sm
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