Telecommunications standardization and intellectual property rights: a fundamental dilemma?

Mark Shurmer, Brunel Univ., London, UK, and Gary Lea, Univ. of Reading, Reading, UK

1/01/2005
(Original Publish Date: 1995)

Back in 1997, technology journalist Clive Thompson wrote that Software is badly made. More than that, it is often horribly made. It is developed with the sort of irresponsible abandon that would be unconscionable if it were applied to bridge-building...