On 06/21/2002 04:38:08 AM "William Overington" wrote:
>I feel that any attempt to delete the word published from the standard
would
>need to be investigated for possible antitrust law violation.
You are strongly overreacting. How can a consortium with unrestricted
membership and with a current membership that is divers, coming from
different sectors (some IT industry, some government, some academic, some
non-profit) and that has sole ownership of it's own standard possibly be
accused of antitrust law violation?
> As the
>standards need to get past ISO and that has, I think, on it delegations
>exercising powers delegated by national governments, then European Union
>Antitrust Law may well protect at least those of us within the European
>Union against such goalpost moving.
It appears to me that the only goalpost moving is in your mind, because,
apparently, you have not grasped the full worldview of the Unicode
Standard.
>However, that allowance of agreements between
>businesses does not continue if changes are made which start impacting
upon
>other people's opportunities. The word published is in the standard, that
>is the opportunity which has been provided and that has lead to my
>publishing my collections of code points. When people sit around a table
to
>discuss the possibility of revising the standard, they need to remember
that
>they are there with certain powers yet certain obligations to the public
as
>well.
>
>I have exercised the rights granted by the specification and published
some
>code point assignments.
It seems to me that you are getting yourself into quite a lather over
nothing: you rights in this manner are not about to be restricted.
>The specification says what it says. If it is to be changed for clarity
>that is one thing, yet if a claim of changes for the sake of clarity is
used
>as a smokescreen for moving the goalposts so as to marginalize
opportunities
>of individuals because it is inconvenient to big business then that is
>another matter entirely.
(Are you into conspiracy theories, BTW? :-) The Consortium is not just big
business interests. No changes to the standard are made due to hidden,
malicious agendas. Nobody is knowingly being marginalised because of
inconvenience to big businesses. Nobody's right to publish their use of PUA
codepoints is about to be restricted.
- Peter
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