On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 07:17:22AM +1200, Simon Lyall wrote:
On Mon, 30 Aug 2004, Mark Borchers wrote:
Peter Galbavy wrote:
On the other hand, the use of patent licenses (like those that say "free if you don't claim against us") for things like VRRP do worry me.
Everybody's entitled to their opinion, but this excerpt from http://www.ietf.org/ietf/IPR//VRRP-CISCO does not seem to me to portend predatory pricing:
However it does make an open source (and certainly a free) implimentation very difficult to do.
A license of $1000 per machine is "reasonable and nondiscriminatory terms" for $100k routers but not for a something that I want to download and run on a few Linux boxes.
In that case the $1000/machine licence discriminates against OSS implementations, and isn't "reasonable and nondiscriminatory". <grin> - Matt