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RE: optics pricing (Re: Weird GigE Media Converter Behavior)
- From: Simon Lyall
- Date: Mon Aug 30 15:23:22 2004
On Mon, 30 Aug 2004, Mark Borchers wrote:
> Peter Galbavy wrote:
> >
> > On the other hand, the use of patent licenses (like those
> > that say "free if
> > you don't claim against us") for things like VRRP do worry me.
> >
>
> Everybody's entitled to their opinion, but this excerpt from
> http://www.ietf.org/ietf/IPR//VRRP-CISCO does not seem to me
> to portend predatory pricing:
However it does make an open source (and certainly a free) implimentation
very difficult to do.
A license of $1000 per machine is "reasonable and nondiscriminatory terms"
for $100k routers but not for a something that I want to download and run
on a few Linux boxes.
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