On Monday, April 14, 2014 16:53:05 MH Michael Hammer wrote:
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Suggest away but the notion of such a group, unless well wrangled and with a
well-defined charter, brings back memories of the MARID working group and
its outcome.
The failure of MARID was entirely legal and political. At the time the
working group was summarily closed there weren't major technical issues left
to resolve. When you try to mix two groups of people, one almost exclusively
from a free software/open source background with a large corporation that
insists on patent licenses that are incompatible with free software/open
source no amount of wrangling is going to save it.
Scott K