On Wed, Jan 01, 2003 at 01:05:00PM +1100, Francis Whittle wrote:
[snip]
> Unfortunately this seems to be the place where free software ideals
> fall down; standards and patents. A lot of standards out there are
> patented; and the creates an environment the opensource community
just
> doesn't stand a chance in, in terms of interoperability with
> proprietary products.
This brings to mind the infamous Halloween Documents. Decommoditizing
protocols. *shudder*
:
:
Of course, I hope all this will turn out to be *not* the case. But it
is
wiser to plan for the worst than to hope we can ignore it out of
existence.