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Re: [DotGNU]IBM, Microsoft plot Net takeover
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Barry Fitzgerald |
Subject: |
Re: [DotGNU]IBM, Microsoft plot Net takeover |
Date: |
Sun, 14 Apr 2002 16:34:27 -0400 |
David Sugar wrote:
>
> As far as I recall, the patents involved refer to specific "extensions"
> to SOAP, rather than to a reference or "standard" implimentation. One
> could simply, for example, create an "extension" to HTTP and then
> similarly misuse the patent system to make some patent claim on it
> (https? :), but this does not invalidate or encumber the original
> standard or reference implimentations of the original standard or our
> ability to create free software for or using the original standard.
>
> The risk is one where the extension becomes a defacto standard onto
> itself or one a maliable standards body might wish to endorse, like what
> happened to https. With the way current patent laws are enforced in
> this country, this can potentially happen to any protocol family and
> represents a common risk to software freedom everywhere. Certainly it
> is not a specific problem unique to SOAP.
>
Agreed - but we could still fight the patent if necessary. But, in this
situation, it's equally possible to use the base standard and create our
own unencumbered extensions to the standard.
-Barry
- [DotGNU]IBM, Microsoft plot Net takeover, Bill Lance, 2002/04/13
- Re: [DotGNU]IBM, Microsoft plot Net takeover, Barry Fitzgerald, 2002/04/13
- Re: [DotGNU]IBM, Microsoft plot Net takeover, Bill Lance, 2002/04/13
- Re: [DotGNU]IBM, Microsoft plot Net takeover, David Sugar, 2002/04/14
- Re: [DotGNU]IBM, Microsoft plot Net takeover,
Barry Fitzgerald <=
- Re: [DotGNU]IBM, Microsoft plot Net takeover, David Sugar, 2002/04/14
- Re: [DotGNU]IBM, Microsoft plot Net takeover, Barry Fitzgerald, 2002/04/14