On Thu, May 30, 2002 10:59:27AM -0400, RJ Atkinson wrote:
My druthers would be to have an IETF policy explicitly saying
that the first choice is to use unencumbered technology if it
can be made to work, second choice is encumbered but
royalty-free technology, and last choice is "fair and reasonable
licence terms" (or whatever the equivalent correct legal wording
might be for that last).
and if one solution is 120% better technically than another, but has a
RAND license associated with it? What if it's 170% better?