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Questions for Standards and OSS Open Forum

Posted By Mattias Ganslandt on August 26th, 2010

All forum discussion will take place on this page!
This forum will discuss the potential tension between some software development and business models and standards that include IPRs licensed under FRAND or RAND terms.

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As our world is not black and white but gray the matter is not about strict rules and exclusion. We also know that SSOs often fail, governments often fail, market mechanisms often fail. It is about preferences, incentives mechanism which lead to more...
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