On Wednesday, January 29, 2003, at 10:18 PM, RL 'Bob' Morgan wrote:
On Wed, 29 Jan 2003, Nicola Ken Barozzi wrote:
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this worries me.Blockers? ----------- "Are there IPR-related concerns with SAML (patents held by RSA but offered royalty free)?" Can you please elaborate more on this?You never know, but the fact that it is now a full year after they first brought up this claim, and they still haven't had enough interest to come up with procedures for getting licenses (and why would they, since they're free), would lead one to believe that they aren't going to pursue enforcing any rights here very aggressively. As Scott said, there are so many nasty patent situations out there, this one seems quite friendly.
we've see numerous cases recently about companies sitting on IPR and then suddenly demanding money as soon as the technology has been widely adopted.
these murky waters are muddied even further given the recent court win for rambus (http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/3/29102.html).
maybe apache should make sure that they can get hold of a license for this technology before accepting this project.
- robert
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