A fascinating email sent by Steve Rowat to the ODRL-interest mailing list. Rowat first notes that he left the patent business because "I no longer felt morally justified inCRLFbeing part of an industry that routinely stole from, blocked, or in other ways interfered with inventors who legitimately owned their own creation." I have often expressed this view of the patent industry, but it is unusual to see an insider express it. He then looks at how closely ODRL should cooperate with MPEG-REL, noting it "may also be that bowing to such a demand - to pay for patents that are likely not valid to begin with - is opening the door to a much worse place; in the same way that giving in to kidnappers demands is, in the long-term, a bad idea." Yeah!
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