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BSA Wants EU Open Standard Policy Reconsidered

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the well-of-course-they-do dept.

XeRXeS-TCN writes "Benoît Müller of the BSA has written an open letter to the EU, criticising their focus on open standards for interoperability, as this would exclude things like DHCP, 802.1X and GSM. He also says that framework "shouldn't imply a link between open source and open standards"."

9 of 191 comments (clear)

  1. Re:DHCP is not open? by berzerke · · Score: 3, Informative

    ...The only other special thing about Microsoft DHCP is the use of dynamic DNS.

    The ISC DHCP software also supports dynamic DNS. Nothing special here.

  2. Re:EU Icon? by modge · · Score: 3, Informative

    The register did an article about just this: Here

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  3. Patents won't help you, small inventor by po8 · · Score: 4, Informative

    Legendary electronics hobbyist Don Lancaster has what I consider to be the must-read page on why patents never help the individual inventor: Patent Avoidance.

  4. I wondered about that one too by einhverfr · · Score: 2, Informative

    I am guessing it is just a scare tactic.

    Lets look at the others:

    GSM: Formerly proprietary. Iirc, patents have expired. The GSM codec, for example, is commonly used in asterisk implimentations.

    802.1x: IEEE standard. Unclear about patent encumbrances though. Won't take off IMO if too encumbered. Many standards are not really unencumbered and so are not readily employed.

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    1. Re:I wondered about that one too by aminorex · · Score: 4, Informative

      802.1x is an open IEEE standard describing port-based access control for MAC bridges operating in the manner of 802.1D. I'm amazed that anyone would give Benoit enough credibility to parrot his claims since they seem to be utterly incoherent. Is 802.1x a crucial interoperability standard? No. Is its implementation patent-encumbered? No. Is it in any way relevant to or illustrative of his argument (if he had one)? No. Does he have any argument at all? No.

      Move along, there's nothing to see here. The clothes have no emperor.

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  5. Re:Imagine an unfolding situation by henrik · · Score: 2, Informative

    Also, there is consumer law which regulates the sellers obligation to you as consumer and your rights as a consumer. This law cannot be signed away in any contract.

  6. Re:EU Icon? by skahshah · · Score: 2, Informative

    In fact, the 12 stars do not represent the 12 fouding members.

    In 1955, The European Community had only 6 members, and no flag. That flag was the European Council's flag, and that organization had nothing to do with what would become the CEE. The European Council had more than 12 members, yet had chosen to have 12 stars on the flag because the number 12 was a symbol of completeness, and the circle a symbol of unity. The European Council then offered to all the other european organizations to share that same flag, and they adopted it one after the other.

  7. Re:Rather, what's the problem with Open file forma by Lehk228 · · Score: 2, Informative

    the problem with open standards is they prevent closed source vendors from fucking over customers and competitors with screwy file formats that only work in their software

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  8. Sun and OpenSSL by thrashbluegrass · · Score: 2, Informative

    The ECC in OpenSSL is a 'patent grant' from Sun.

    From research.sun.com:

    "Why the additional "covenant" language in the Sun license?

    The OpenSSL's standard BSD style license does not address patent issues explicitly. Sun added a "patent peace provision" language to clarify its patent grant."

    This is why OpenBSD ships with an ECC-less OpenSSL.

    http://research.sun.com/projects/crypto/Frequenl yA skedQuestions.html