- From: Keith Moore <moore@cs.utk.edu>
- Date: Sun, 01 Apr 2001 16:04:27 -0400
- To: Chiariglione Leonardo <Leonardo.Chiariglione@TILAB.COM>
- cc: "'Keith Moore'" <moore@cs.utk.edu>, "'Rob Lanphier'" <robla@real.com>, discuss@apps.ietf.org
> >That's exhorbitant compared to the cost of the software, which is zero. > > That is the cost for a hardware based device. 1%-2% for IPR is not > unreasonable by the people concerned. 1-2% of parts cost or of retail cost? when I was doing hardware engineering for a large consumer electronics firm, even a fifty cent increase in parts cost needed considerable justification. > >protocol standards need to be free, period. > > What about word and powerpoint? what about them? they're not standards, they present considerable security risks to those who use them, and powerpoint seems to be detrimental to the minds of those who use it. I discourage their use as much as possible. > >the same thing was true of the Titanic. > > Not the same captain of course not! but it might be well to point out that while he was quite experienced at sea, the nature of the vessels he was captaining had changed. when a crisis struck, he wasn't prepared for those changes... Keith p.s. until that voyage he described his career as "uneventful".
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