Re: Withdrawal of Approval and Second Last Call: draft-housley-tls-authz-extns

[Arnt Gulbrandsen <arnt at gulbrandsen.priv.no>]

Just one comment:

Brian E Carpenter writes:
> On 2007-04-11 10:08, Simon Josefsson wrote:
> >    What typically happens in practice, among good-faith 
> >    practitioners, is that there won't be any GPL (or Apache, or 
> >    Mozilla, or ...) implementation of the patented technology at 
> >    all, because the necessary rights cannot be acquired.
>
> Doesn't that sound like a bug in the OSS licenses to you, assuming the 
> desired result is to make the Internet work better?

In this kind of situation, what would _you_ choose?

[ ] Apply for an IPR license/sign an NDA/do other paperwork
[ ] Violate someone's something
[ ] Go do something else

My choice tends to be the last, because my goal is generally not to 
implement some specific technology, it is to increase people's 
happiness and productivity. I can do that by implementing whatever Mark 
has patented. Or in any of ten thousand other ways. See?

Arnt

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