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RE: ISO turns evil?

• To: <rjm@z...>,"David Carlisle" <davidc@n...>
• Subject: RE: ISO turns evil?
• From: "Chris Wilper" <cwilper@c...>
• Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2003 11:59:09 -0400
• Cc: <xml-dev@l...>
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• Thread-topic: ISO turns evil?

Hmmm...I wonder how hard you have to make it for your 
customers to use the codes in order for it to be legal.

For instance, is giving them the exact URL 
and an "import" program upon install going too far?

Or would you have to give them the URL, 
but written instructions on how to import the data?

If #2 is ok, I bet the instructions would have
to take at least an hour to follow in order for
it to be legal.

... which is to say, this whole thing seems a
bit fuzzy to me.

- Chris


-----Original Message-----
From: Rick Marshall [mailto:rjm@z...]
Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2003 3:36 AM
To: David Carlisle
Cc: xml-dev@l...
Subject: Re:  ISO turns evil?


i think if you read the messages carefully this shouldn't really affect
anyone

the message seems to say that if you want include the codes in a
commercial product you have to pay

if you want to advise your customers about where they can download the
codes for use, then noone pays

a nuisance, but it would affect say oracle who wants to value add their
product with the codes, but not me because i'll just show my clients how
to download the codes.

rick

On Tue, 2003-09-23 at 01:15, David Carlisle wrote:
> >> Again, this is all premature.  Obviously, someone has made some kind
> >> of a serious mistake at ISO (given the warning on the Web site), but
> >> hopefully it's one that they will fix quickly.
> 
> > introducing a license fee at this time would be more 
> > than a minor irritation.
> 
> It appears that it's not just a warning on a website, but that ANSI is
> already trying to collect money for the use of these things.
> 
> Google turned up:
> 
> http://www.ncits.org/archive/2003/in030467/in030467.htm
> 
> David
> 
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