[conspire] ieee

[Paul Zander]

Standards are important.  Think about how well USB works because everything is designed according to a common set of rules.


The history behind this policy is that a few times a company has been quietly granted patents. Then the company gets involved in the writing of a new standard.  Only after the standard has been issued does the company claim that everyone must pay royalties to meet the new standard.  Had the existence of patents been widely known, the standard making committee would probably have made different decisions.


A few years back, there was a lot of shouting and several law suits between Rambus and companies that actually make memory chips.







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 From: Don Marti <dmarti at zgp.org>
To: Ruben Safir <ruben at mrbrklyn.com> 
Cc: conspire at linuxmafia.com 
Sent: Friday, January 30, 2015 10:30 AM
Subject: Re: [conspire] ieee
 

begin Ruben I Safir quotation of Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 10:38:31AM -0500:

> anyone ever join ieee?
> 
> Any benifit from them?

They must be doing something right, judging from the
existence of this astroturf site:

  http://www.advancingengineering.org/

Don't know what it is, though.

-- 
Don Marti                    
http://zgp.org/~dmarti/
dmarti at zgp.org




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