Re: copyright questions

["Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>]

On Wed, 15 Aug 2012 02:49:35 +0200, Yannick Duch�ne (Hibou57) wrote:

> Either one want to propose a standard, and then should (must not, but  
> should) not undermine the standard with things preventing its adoption, or  
> else he/she should only defines its copyrighted or patented material for  
> internal process or internals of a suite only, not foreign process  
> exchanges (purpose of a standard).

Many (most?) standards are not publicly available. You should pay a fee
and/or get a membership in some organization in order to have access to the
standard. The documents comprising such standards are definitely protected
by law, e.g. it is illegal to pass a copy to anybody else. This causes
sometimes quite Kafkan E-mail exchanges between parties when only one of
two has an access to the secret lore. (:-))

As for wining minds and hearts, it is not really necessary. Instead, a more
cost-effective leverage would be to push some governmental body to mandate
the standard. That does the trick.

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Regards,
Dmitry A. Kazakov
http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de