Re: What is a standard and why standards bodies won't sue you (was RE:ISO intellectual property (was Standards))

[John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com>]

Lisa Rein wrote:


> 1)  ISO Standards (the only "real" international standards)


There are a few others, like ITU standards.


> Sun wasn't allowed to make Java an ISO standard [...]


Sun could have done so.  AFAIK, negotiations broke down on the term
"Java", which Sun wanted to keep for themselves -- they proposed
that the Standard use the clumsy phrase "the programming language
for the JAVA(tm) workstation"(!)  And on the question of who would
be responsible for further changes: "Sun", saith Sun; "an ISO WG", saith
ISO.

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