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Re: RFC Publication - Patent-Free Declarations ... -- Market of Protocols -- Free Protocols Foundation

2006-03-18 05:04:33
Hi, Mohan,

As much as I applaud the idea of "patent-free protocols", isn't the issue that we can't really know that a protocol is "patent-free"? We can only observe that "we haven't been notified of any applicable patent claims - yet".

For some value of the word "applicable"...

And maybe we could even say, "no one has told us they are being sued - yet", but I'm not sure we want to go there, either

Thanks,

Spencer


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