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We know that RF has worked in a set of limited cases and
mostly for core technologies or loss leaders. We don't
know if RAND limits customer choice. It limits the ability of
a competitor to use a technology they did not develop.
This depends on whether or not alternatives exist which
are reasonably close in capability, eg, the XML compression
technique now owned by MPEG.
As for market amplification, that's hard to predict.
Why hasn't Adobe given up the rights to PDF, or Sun
the rights to Java? Why is Adobe pursuing closed
technologies for its real time 3D (Atmosphere) instead
of contributing to X3D?
The exceptions exist and are very easy to find. Look.
len
From: Rich Salz [mailto:rsalz@datapower.com]
> laws. So where it might have been "the right thing to do", now it
> is a business loss to do because licensing is more profitable than
> paying out to create specifications for competitors to build to.
Or it might be a business win because now we'll get 10% of a $bn market
than 90% of a $10M market.
Ya never know. We do know that, so far, RF has worked; the only thing
we know about RAND is that customer choice will be limited.
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