Companies are certainly free to obtain patents, but to do so lurking behind a so-called "standard" is absurd. By definition, a standard needs to be accessible to all -- otherwise it's proprietary. If these patent tricks are backed by royalties, then those technologies will not become standards and the computing community will create alternatives. David --------------------------------------------- David A. E. Wall CEO & Chief Software Architect Yozons, Inc. 724 17th Avenue Kirkland, WA 98033 USA Tel 425.822.4465 dwall@yozons.com Fax 425.827.9415 www.yozons.com Cell 425.442.2729Received on Wednesday, 17 April 2002 23:15:15 GMT
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