Microsoft still pushing a standards tax

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You make an assumption that is not true

"If a standard includes ?IP restrictions? of any sort, especially royalties (no matter how reasonable or necessary you consider them) you?re imposing a tax on all users for your invention."

Excuse me? Take for example Flash. Do they not license On2's proprietary "IP restricted" technology for which they also pay a "royalty". How much "tax" did the nearly 100% of internet users who have Flash pay? Same with Move. Same with the codecs MS includes for SL on linux. Same with many many other examples of royaltied IP.

There is no causation between resitricted IP, even with royalties, and end user "tax". End user taxes are a completely independent business model decision.

PS the ooxml argument is pretty weak too. From the other side it can be looked at as MS was open enough (or powerless enough) to standard change for the good of all that the standard moved far enough from what they already had (and submmitted) that it took them significant time to conform to. And that they spend more time testing the chnages than the OSS implementors...

Posted by: Johnny Vegas   Posted on: 08/10/09  (Edited: 08/10/2009 @ 07:16) You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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