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EU survey on Free Software and standards: make your voice heard!
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Free Software Foundation Europe is calling on European Free Software
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businesses to participate in a survey regardingg business attitudes
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towards the acceptability of including patents in standards.
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The Free Software Foundation Europe is calling on European Free Software
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businesses to participate in a survey of business attitudes
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towards the acceptability of including patents in industry standards.
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This survey [ http://projects.isi.tu-berlin.de/ipr/eso/survey.php] is
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a key component of the study that will play the major role in the
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EC's reform of standardisation policy. It is open until September 17.
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The survey [http://projects.isi.tu-berlin.de/ipr/eso/survey.php] is
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a key component of a study that will play the major role in the
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EC's reform of standardisation policy. It is open for submissions until
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September 17.
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A major theme in the survey is whether patents that are included in
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standards should be licensed royalty-free (the W3C [fn:1] takes this
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approach), or whether they should be licensed under so-called
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A major theme in the survey is whether patents that cover standards
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should be licensed royalty-free (the W3C [fn:1] takes this
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approach), or whether they should instead be licensed under so-called
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"fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory terms" (FRAND) [fn:2].
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FRAND is a misnomer as the terms are neither fair nor reasonable, nor
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impossible to distribute a program as Free Software - an obvious
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nonsense."
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A second theme in the survey is the question which standardisation
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A second theme in the survey is the question of which standardisation
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organisations should receive official recognition. Should only those
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standards that come out of organisations like ISO be recognised, or
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should governments also accept standards that come out of industry
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