Re: Spec organizations and prioritization

On 3/22/2012 10:06 AM, Anne van Kesteren wrote:
> On Thu, 22 Mar 2012 14:48:49 +0100, Dominique Hazael-Massieux 
> <dom@w3.org> wrote:
>> Actually, I think any cost estimate we would get would be entirely
>> dwarfed by the estimates we would get by asking microsoft, google, and
>> apple about the cost they would associate with getting sued over a
>> feature they're deploying in their browsers today. And I don't need to
>> mention all the services and content providers that rely on these
>> features to get their business done today. So I don't really think we
>> need that particular data to determine that this would be a very good
>> ROI.
>
> Yes you do. Have companies operating in the same WG sued each other 
> yet over technology being defined in that WG? 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.)
>
>
Companies in the same WG can't sue each other about RF work in that WG.  
They do sue each other all the time for non-RF protected work.

Received on Thursday, 22 March 2012 14:10:42 UTC