I understand what patenting is, (and in general would prefer to see it outlawed for software and processes). You don't address the question of what is in it for the members of the open group.
The Open Group is a member organziation and it take paranoia of a high order to imagine user organizations (or even vendors) coming together to usurp open source in the way you imply.
Would you like to share your thinking on what you think the benefit to the members of The open Group in doing as you suggest?
>Only in this senario the flow of benifit is >from the Open Source community and to the Open >Group and not visa versa.
>The Open Group will take what it can from Open >Source, patent it and/or copyright it and then >turn around bust the Open Source community in >the chops and inform it that it can non longer >do what it does because of patent violations >and copyright infringment.
How stringent do you think they are?
The UNIX certification program was put in place (in 1994, and it remains so to this day) with a 50% discount for the UNIX fees for low cost ($1500 I seem to recall) software shipped without hardware.
The reality we see today WAS forseen when the program was put together.
Now you can argue whetehr the absolute numbers are to your liking:-))
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I understand what patenting is, (and in general would prefer to see it outlawed for software and processes). You don't address the question of what is in it for the members of the open group. The Open Group is a member organziation and it take paranoia of a high order to imagine user organizations (or even vendors) coming together to usurp open source in the way you imply.
Would you like to share your thinking on what you think the benefit to the members of The open Group in doing as you suggest? >Only in this senario the flow of benifit is >from the Open Source community and to the Open >Group and not visa versa. >The Open Group will take what it can from Open >Source, patent it and/or copyright it and then >turn around bust the Open Source community in >the chops and inform it that it can non longer >do what it does because of patent violations >and copyright infringment.
How stringent do you think they are? The UNIX certification program was put in place (in 1994, and it remains so to this day) with a 50% discount for the UNIX fees for low cost ($1500 I seem to recall) software shipped without hardware. The reality we see today WAS forseen when the program was put together. Now you can argue whetehr the absolute numbers are to your liking :-))
... and there was me thinking that it was me you were referring to Bruce :-))