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   RE: [xml-dev] Bruce Perens and yet more patents

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From what I am reading, the patent only applies to handhelds. 
Perens is now a director of a foundation seeking to concentrate 
protection from this into one group: his.  He makes good points 
and the open sourcers seem to be wising up to the realities 
of business models, but he is also hustling business for himself. 

I'll say here as I do there:  if you make a call for arms, 
you better be armed.  Again:  be precise about what a standard 
is and more precise about participation agreements for members 
of standards organizations.  An IP keiretsu is the complementary 
model for open source.  By extension, liasons among complementary 
organizations are necessary.   Only IP collected and managed 
at this scale will preserve development domains from becoming 
proprietary.  Fighting the patent system and large well-heeled 
organizations directly is a waste of energy.  If you want 
a healthy commons, learn to manage them the way wildlife 
preserves are managed.

len


From: Jeff Greif [mailto:jgreif@alumni.princeton.edu]

And the preset buttons on radios that when 'clicked' select the preset
frequency, and when held down, set the preset frequency to the currently
tuned value.




 

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