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Re: Modular approach to key management
"perry" == Perry E. Metzger <perry@imsi.com> writes:
> Ashar Aziz writes:
> Sun will license on a royalty-free basis the SKIP patents to all
> comers. There will be a ONE-TIME fee of $99, which is required for
> legal reasons, not financial. This is because the only purpose of
> the license is defensive (Sun disclaims all liability) and the
> reason for the fee is that contract law stipulates that
> something of value has to exchange for a contract to bind.
How can SKIP be distributed freely if one must apply for
patent rights? This will IMHO, contrain its wide-spread use to those
who can affort the fee. We should put the pressure on SUN to stop this
foolishness, so that *everyone* adopts and implements SKIP.
--tOm
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