[conspire] ieee

[Ruben]

I don't need an email address, I have one, and I will have it until I 
die.  I can give you one also if you want it, for free.

Frankly, they seem like AMWAY to me.  There website sucks and is largely 
reflective of what I've seen of them thus far, which is a dis 
conjunctive group of technology people with many commercial interests, 
often in conflict with each other, and huge egos all around, which seems 
to be one of the reasons it doesn't work.

I asked because i was sort of railroaded in to joining by one professors 
at LIU to join and that gets him a nice plaque at the end of the year to 
hang in his office.

As a standards based organization, frankly they suck.  They have 
repeatedly made "standards" that are essentially corporate bonuses. They 
are no doing or funding and real research....

It seems so much of late as the Moose lodge.  Those things can be good, 
but I'm a free software person myself and I just don't feel like being 
associated with a bunch of patent whores, and corporate interests...  
all of them banging on each others chests.

I'm at a crossroad with them.  Right now, I can't even make their 
website work correctly and they spam my email box all day and all night.



On 01/31/2015 05:27 PM, Paul Zander wrote:
> 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
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> 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
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> dmarti at zgp.org <mailto:dmarti at zgp.org>
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