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On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 07:17:22AM +1200, Simon Lyall wrote: > > On Mon, 30 Aug 2004, Mark Borchers wrote: > > Peter Galbavy wrote: > > > > > > On the other hand, the use of patent licenses (like those > > > that say "free if > > > you don't claim against us") for things like VRRP do worry me. > > > > > > > Everybody's entitled to their opinion, but this excerpt from > > http://www.ietf.org/ietf/IPR//VRRP-CISCO does not seem to me > > to portend predatory pricing: > > However it does make an open source (and certainly a free) implimentation > very difficult to do. > > A license of $1000 per machine is "reasonable and nondiscriminatory terms" > for $100k routers but not for a something that I want to download and run > on a few Linux boxes. In that case the $1000/machine licence discriminates against OSS implementations, and isn't "reasonable and nondiscriminatory". <grin> - Matt Attachment:
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