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OASIS patent policy sparks boycott

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A who's who of the open-source and free-software movements on Tuesday took aim at a leading Web services standards group, escalating pressure for mandatory royalty-free licensing policies with calls for a boycott of its specifications.

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mdl ·
Patent loving proprietary companies keep trying to subvert standards groups, but fortunately Open-source and free-software advocates are paying attention.

I would be tempted to say "OASIS just doesn't get it", but they understand all too well what they are trying to do.... lock out free software.

OASIS CEO Patrick Gannon: "in almost all cases, that results in a royalty-free license for that work." Sorry, but *almost all* is not good enough.

"Defenders of RAND-tolerant standards policies say standards suffer from exclusion of royalty-bearing technologies." Fine, I prefer to suffer with a royalty-free standard rather that suffer with one that can't be implemented by F/OSS.

Let's just call this what it is: just another battle in the war with proprietary software.

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