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Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, November 06 2012 @ 07:40 AM EST |
Obviously that's what Apple thought they F stood for. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: rsteinmetz70112 on Tuesday, November 06 2012 @ 05:10 PM EST |
I think this has been somewhat of a shift in recent years.
Originally the phrase was RAND, after all why is Reasonable And Non
Discriminatory not also Fair. Generally this was taken to mean the royalty rate
should be low and the license should be available to all comers.
When I first heard of FRAND, I think it was using the F for Free as the license
carried no royalty and were also Reasonable and Non Discriminatory. Since a
Free (as in beer) license could also carry conditions which might not be
reasonable, for example a compulsory cross license of unrelated technology or a
one way requirement to share proprietary technology.
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Rsteinmetz - IANAL therefore my opinions are illegal.
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Randy Newman - The Title Theme from Monk
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