<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:16px"><div><span>Standards are important. Think about how well USB works because everything is designed according to a common set of rules.<br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>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.<br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br><span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>A few years back, there was a lot of shouting and several law suits between Rambus and companies that actually make memory chips.<br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br><span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size:
16px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br><span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span><br></span></div><div><br></div> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div dir="ltr"> <hr size="1"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Don Marti <dmarti@zgp.org><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Ruben Safir <ruben@mrbrklyn.com> <br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cc:</span></b> conspire@linuxmafia.com <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Friday, January 30, 2015 10:30 AM<br> <b><span
style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [conspire] ieee<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container"><br>begin Ruben I Safir quotation of Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 10:38:31AM -0500:<br clear="none"><br clear="none">> anyone ever join ieee?<br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> Any benifit from them?<br clear="none"><br clear="none">They must be doing something right, judging from the<br clear="none">existence of this astroturf site:<br clear="none"><br clear="none"> <a shape="rect" href="http://www.advancingengineering.org/" target="_blank">http://www.advancingengineering.org/</a><br clear="none"><br clear="none">Don't know what it is, though.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">-- <br clear="none">Don Marti <br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="http://zgp.org/~dmarti/" target="_blank">http://zgp.org/~dmarti/</a><br clear="none"><a shape="rect"
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