On Fri, Mar 12, 1999 at 07:10:00PM -0000, Mike Bilow wrote:
> However, the fact that you can patent something does not necessarily mean that
> it is a good idea to do so. Experience has shown that protocols are primarily
> valuable because they are adopted by consensus, and that open protocols are far
> more likely to achieve consensus than proprietary ones, even where the
> proprietary ones were technically superior. Recent history is littered with
> endless examples of this phenomon, such as the IBM Microchannel Architecture or
> Sony Betamax. On the contrary, the protocols which have succeeded in the free
> marketplace are those which are in the public domain, such as TCP/IP.
So can we create a free APRS replacement? Write our own protocol spec,
develop some software (linux and Windows)?
Hamish
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