Alex Hudson wrote: > Of course, that doesn't mean that the standard might accidentally have > something which is covered by a patent, but that's outside the scope of > OASIS policy really.
This is a point really worth stressing. No standards agencies have the power to ensure that standards are unencumbered by patents. The best they can do is ensure that the participants in the standardisation process do not encumber the standards. The cause of the problem is not the standards agencies but software patents. cheers stuart -- Stuart Yeates [EMAIL PROTECTED] OSS Watch http://www.oss-watch.ac.uk/ Oxford Text Archive http://ota.ahds.ac.uk/ _______________________________________________ Fsfe-uk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/fsfe-uk
