February 22nd, 2005
Midnight at the OASIS
Boycott OASIS? Paul Festa has the story.
The leading e-business standards body faces a boycott based on its new intellectual property policy, which endorses the inclusion of technology requiring payment of royalties to its standards. The new policy goes into effect in April.
Festa notes thata who’s who of open source advocacy — Mitchell Kapor, Lawrence Lessig, Tim O’Reilly, Bruce Perens, Eric Raymond, Lawrence Rosen, Doc Searls and Richard Stallman — signed an e-mail today endorsing a boycott.
The money quote is from Rosen, former OSI general counsel."We want organizations like OASIS to develop policies so any group that wants to use an industry standard can know in advance whether or not someone’s going to come along and reach into their pocketbook."
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Dana Blankenhorn has been a business journalist for 30 years, a tech freelancer since 1983. You can follow Dana on Twitter. See his full profile and disclosure of his industry affiliations.
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