...transit. Or even that the international consequences may be dire, including undercutting our efforts to strengthen a weak Iraq, and curtailing the ability of American companies to create new jobs...
...nonsense. True, they use metric system standards as the basis for their metaphor, but that’s exactly the wrong basis for comparison because the OSS definition refers not to an immutable physical...
Develops and promotes specifications and standards for an open, free and secure “Spatial Web” The Spatial Web Foundation (SWF) develops, stewards and promotes technical and ethical specifications and standards for...
Participation in standard-setting organizations (SSOs) raises issues with grave implications for many companies. SSOs promote interoperability in technology systems through the adoption of technical standards. Conflicting demands for standardization, free...
...industries like the information and communication technology (“ICT”) sector may limit the effectiveness of intellectual property rights in achieving these goals. In particular, in the case of standard essential patents...
...market to decide, that is, operators have been free to choose among the recognized four digital wireless standards for 2G: CDMA/IS- 95, GSM, TDMA and iDEN. The issue of market-based...
...therefore intensified their efforts to promote royalty-free (RF) standards. While this approach definitely contributes to a faster standards development process and eventually faster implementation, certain important contributors might decide to...
...venture capitalists and has Fortune 500 companies as customers. Yet very little is known about how such software will compete with established software firms. In this paper, I propose a...
...capitalize on its popularity; (2) the bait and switch ploy where a patentee encourages adoption by offering royalty-free use of standard-related patents, and then, after the standard has gone into...
...methods of generating revenues from free software. Further, in many important areas the two classes of firm have learned to co-operate as well as compete with one another. This article...