Re: optics pricing (Re: Weird GigE Media Converter Behavior)

[Matthew Palmer <mpalmer () hezmatt org>]

On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 07:17:22AM +1200, Simon Lyall wrote:
> 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.

In that case the $1000/machine licence discriminates against OSS
implementations, and isn't "reasonable and nondiscriminatory".  <grin>

- Matt

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