BSA Wants EU Open Standard Policy Reconsidered

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"."

Comments

Re:DHCP is not open?

[berzerke]

...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.

Re:EU Icon?

[modge]

The register did an article about just this: Here

Patents won't help you, small inventor

[po8]

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.

Re:I wondered about that one too

[aminorex]

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.