Re: Shuffle those deck chairs!

["Eric S. Raymond" <esr at thyrsus.com>]

Paul Vixie <paul at vix.com>:
>                                 eric is saying that the previous situation
> whereby a draft author surrendered the IPR before RFC publication was better.
> various others have said "but what if the IPR terms try to distinguish
> between commercial and noncommercial?"  my observations are (1) there are
> ways to do "open source" without this distinction, and (2) authors cannot
> be expected warrant their IPR surrender in any case.

In fact, the *only* way to do open source is without this distinction.

I actually wish it were otherwise, but my wishes have no effect on the
logic of the situation.
-- 
		<a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond</a>

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