Re: placing a dollar value on IETF IP.

["TS Glassey" <tglassey at earthlink.net>]

Ooops - forgot the link too the story on the valuation of the LINUX Kernel.

http://www.itbusinessedge.com/blogs/smb/?p=107&nr=dye
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "TS Glassey" <tglassey at earthlink.net>
To: "IETF Discussion" <ietf at ietf.org>; <ipr-wg at ietf.org>
Sent: Friday, October 24, 2008 8:27 AM
Subject: placing a dollar value on IETF IP.


> Since there is now a specific value estimated by the LINUX community at 
> 1.4B for the kernel itself, the IETF can no longer hide its head in the 
> sand claiming that its workproduct has no specific value. This also means 
> that ANY AND ALL contributions to the IETF no matter when they happened 
> now need to be formally acknowledged for their financial value at the time 
> of their contribution.
>
> This is not an OPTION.
>
> Todd Glassey 

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