Julian,
>> But argument against are the following:
>> large manufactorers (e.g. Oracle, etc) refuse implement before standardization.
JR> you may not be able to standardize without showing at least one reference
JR> implementation.
Isn't it ???
>> (1) Ideas (instead of algorithms) are not capable to be patented !
>> (2) International patent does not exist
>> (if you want to patent, you must make this in each country separetely).
JR> If there are patents that are valid, you may either have to pay license
JR> fees, or you won't be able to release that product in the country where
JR> the patent is hold. When you're doing open source, you may be even in
JR> bigger trouble because your open source license may be fundamentally
JR> incompatible with the license terms of the patent holder.
To what you want to point:
(1) that my ideas maybe already come into some head, and is alreade patented
(2) that someone, who read my proposals, will patent them faster
(3) something else ?
Dmitry Turin
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