Bill McGonigle wrote:
> With being tied up with ECMA and the various well-publicized efforts to
> get RAND licenses on them, these aren't the parts most people were
> worried about.
But the thing is, RAND does not necessarily mean royalty-free, let alone
compatible with Free Software licenses (no royalty-based patent license is,
and even royalty-free ones can have problematic restrictions). RAND just
means they won't charge you more just because you like Fedora and hate M$,
but it doesn't preclude them from charging a fee from every licensor (which
is inherently incompatible with Free Software: while Free Software is about
freedom, not cost, having to pay a patent holder for a license is NOT
considered Free).
Kevin Kofler
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