IBM, Microsoft Plot Net Takeover
David Berlind,
ZDNet Tech Update,
Apr 12, 2002
OK, it's not just me. This article suggests that IBM and Microsoft are planning to essentially take over the internet by ensuring that they have the right to charge royalties for widely used protocols such as SOAP, WSDL, and UDDI. It's hard to notice, but this article is serveral pages long (follow the link at the lower right hand corner). It describes the increasingly tense relationship between the two companies and the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), which insists that the underlying standards must be available to everyone on a royalty-free basis.
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