RE: patent language for all drafts

[Michael Hallgren <m.hallgren@free.fr>]

Quoting Abbie Barbir <abbieb@nortelnetworks.com>:

> 
> well, this is the point I am making. Standards should be in thoery
> patent
> free??


Or, strengthen your statement - 'by definition' patent free?? (Of course,
this might be dependent on what flavor of standard we're talking about - 
but to me IETF is an implicative... (?))


mh


> 
> abbie
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Keith Moore [mailto:moore@cs.utk.edu]
> > Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2001 1:53 PM
> > To: cdn
> > Subject: Re: patent language for all drafts
> > 
> > 
> > Personally, I don't see how people can pretend to participate in
> IETF
> > in good faith on one hand and work toward patent applications that
> > may prevent the ability of folks to implement IETF standards 
> > on the other.
> > 
> > Keith
> > 
> > 
> 



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