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Yes and no. I have to waffle here because groups such as MPEG make no secret of the fact they are influencing standards and including patent pools. This does happen. I don't like it but it does. Sometimes to keep a standard in forward motion, one accepts that the common technology is a patented one. In this particular case, the claim is fairly absurd on the surface. Given that Eve is not absurd, I guess there are subsurface properties of which we are not aware. Len http://www.mp3.com/LenBullard Ekam sat.h, Vipraah bahudhaa vadanti. Daamyata. Datta. Dayadhvam.h From: Ann Navarro [mailto:ann@w...] The W3C has made calls for prior art to fight patent assertions in the past, I wouldn't expect that policy to change. With all respect to Eve, Sun's "offer" for the licensing is inappropriate in an consortium-based standards body, and should not attempt to force submissions of what otherwise could be true IP of other companies into the open-source space. I would certainly lobby for a rejection of any document containing such a clause.
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