- From: Dominique Hazael-Massieux <dom@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2012 15:20:51 +0100
- To: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
- Cc: Marcos Caceres <w3c@marcosc.com>, Jeff Jaffe <jeff@w3.org>, public-w3process <public-w3process@w3.org>, Daniel Glazman <daniel.glazman@disruptive-innovations.com>
Le jeudi 22 mars 2012 à 15:06 +0100, Anne van Kesteren a écrit : > On Thu, 22 Mar 2012 14:48:49 +0100, Dominique Hazael-Massieux <dom@w3.org> > wrote: > Yes you do. Have companies operating in the same WG sued each other yet > over technology being defined in that WG? I don't think there has been cases of trial across WG participants since the Patent Policy is in operation. But the fact that this hasn't happened doesn't mean that these companies wouldn't be ready to put a (likely very high) price on the potential cost of this happening. > What is the price of having > competent people do make work instead of actual work? (Consider also that > time not invested in actually improving the platform helps competing > platforms.) The cost of getting competent people to do make work is high, but I'm fairly sure it's well below the cost of most patent litigations, even reduced by a risk factor. Also, we don't have to make it a cost-only operation: this modularization work sounds like a very good opportunity for someone that doesn't feel like tackling all the most thorny issues that editors have to deal with to get more familiar with the spec editing role, get to interact with the specialists in the space, etc. Dom
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