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Won't work - companies won't contribute to standards | 282 comments | Create New Account
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Won't work - companies won't contribute to standards
Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, March 14 2013 @ 11:21 AM EDT
And basically that's how things work. Companies that want to use standard
technologies that are patented reasonably will
approach the holders of that IP and negotiate a license that would entail
paying royalties to the holder(s) of that IP.

That's perfectly reasonable insofar as the R&D costs to develop and patent
valuable IP is rewarded.

The issue here is: Why hasn't Apple negotiated such a license? And if they want
a "thermonuclear" war, why should anyone
or any government agency try to protect them from their own plan of mutually
assured destruction? Are we seeing another
incarnation of the "too big to fail" doctrine here?

I don't believe apple is "too big to fail". I don't think the public
good would be harmed if their wares get banned. Only their
company stocks would be harmed and then they would get pressured by their
shareholders to fix the problem and stop
stealing someone else's IP. Then the ban would get lifted and business resumes
as normal.

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