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Re: Facts to Support RAND? was: Re: more patent fun

• To: "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@i...>
• Subject: Re: Facts to Support RAND? was: Re: more patent fun
• From: Rich Salz <rsalz@d...>
• Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2003 13:17:31 -0500
• Cc: xml-dev@l...
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> laws.  So where it might have been "the right thing to do", now it 
> is a business loss to do because licensing is more profitable than 
> paying out to create specifications for competitors to build to.

Or it might be a business win because now we'll get 10% of a $bn market 
than 90% of a $10M market.

Ya never know.  We do know that, so far, RF has worked; the only thing 
we know about RAND is that customer choice will be limited.
	/r$

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