Jacob Palme wrote:
My personal notes from the IETF meeting in Minneapolis
last week can be found at
http://dsv.su.se/jpalme/ietf/ietf-mar-01-notes.html
Here are some highlights (since some of the nroff systems
are not "html ready" :^)
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One speaker complained bitterly: There are several patents,
suing each other, and making work complex for IETF standards
work. The patent system is screwed up. People unreasonably get
patents for well-known ideas and methods. Lawyers have
unreasonable concepts of what is novel and patentable, causing
much problems and stopping technical development and
standards work.
(notes from Professor Jacob Palme,
Stockholm University and KTH Technical University
http://dsv.su.se/jpalme/ietf/ietf-mar-01-notes.html per March 2001)