From: Doug Ewell (dewell@adelphia.net)
Date: Mon Feb 19 2007 - 14:43:02 CST
Philippe Verdy <verdy underscore p at wanadoo dot fr> wrote:
> So non-discrimination of licence grants is not the only issue ;
> there's also the risk of future claims to continue to use a patent
> that was initially licenced for free. We've seen much enough companies
> pushing others to adopt their standard with initial adoption plans
> without even saying what would be the future fees claims for those
> patents, and that suddenly come back years later to claim millions of
> dollars to the adopters. As this risk can't be eliminated, this also
> prevents the smallest organizations to adopt those standards, because
> they could not support the risk of future claims.
GIF.
'Nuff said.
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