Late last year, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) announced guidelines that would have allowed software patent owners to charge "reasonable and non-discriminatory" (RAND) royalties on patented software that W3C might choose to embed in its Web services standards. This predictably raised a hailstorm of protest from the Internet and "open source" communities that form much of the W3C's constituency.
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The Coming Software Patent Storm
Posted June 25, 2002 | Leadership | Leadership |
About The Author
Michael Guttman has more than 25 years' expertise designing, developing, and deploying large-scale complex enterprise systems and infrastructures. Previously, he was CTO of Genesis Development Corporation, an enterprise software consulting company that he cofounded in 1992 and later sold to IONA Technologies, PLC. While at Genesis, Mr. Guttman managed the development of SureTrack, a groundbreaking process for transitioning large IT organizations… Read More
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