[KLUG Members] IBM, Microsoft plot Web takeover

[Bruce Atherton]

Ok, but what about the future? there is some thing on that further into the 
article/s. That's where I am looking at, down the road at the next version 
of the web.

Bruce


>From: adam@morrison-ind.com
>Reply-To: members@kalamazoolinux.org
>To: members@kalamazoolinux.org
>Subject: Re: [KLUG Members] IBM, Microsoft plot Web takeover
>Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 13:27:30 -0400
>
> >I just read this and thought that I would pass it along. I wonder...is 
>this
> >the beginning of the end of the Web?
> >http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2861123,00.html
>
>"If the protocols do become standards, either by virtue of an independent
>standards organization's imprimatur or by attaining a de facto status, IBM 
>and
>Microsoft--or any other company that maintains the intellectual property 
>rights
>to them--could legally impose royalties on that traffic. In fact, any 
>protocols
>that become a part of the core Internet infrastructure without having been 
>made
>available on a royalty-free basis could guarantee the owners of the 
>intellectual
>property the right to place a tax on the Internet traffic that depends on 
>those
>protocols."
>
>Nope, they already blew their chance to do this.  Precedence of enforcement 
>is
>very important to intellectual property law.  If you don't make a 
>reasonable
>effort to enforce your copyright/patent it is effectivley void.   There 
>*ARE*
>*CURRENTLY* ***MANY*** GPL'd implementations of SOAP and WSDL, etc...
>
>And this list does not include the *VERY* popular XML-RPC, or even CORBA,  
>both
>of which will place an instrumental role in web services.
>
>Failure to establish precedence is how you now have TrueType support in 
>Linux
>distributions.  Thre freetype project made several attempts to contact 
>apple
>(who holds the patent) about their (freetype's) work and licensing.  Apple 
>did
>not respond to any of their queries.  Apple's tough outta luck,  True Type
>technology is not effectively public domain.
>
>
>
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