Date: Fri, 11 Jul 1997 11:34:26 -0400 (EDT) From: "Ron G. Minnich" <rminnich@Sarnoff.COM> To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NDA? (fwd) Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.970711113107.6134B-100000@terra>
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The word from I2O. I have sent back a reply. We'll see what happens. If you do talk to these folks make arguments based on hard, commercial reality, not 'it's the right thing'. I'm basing my arguments on the commercial reality of our DARPA contracts here which require development under GPL. ron p.s. he got my name wrong :) Ron Minnich |Java: an operating-system-independent, rminnich@sarnoff.com |architecture-independent programming language (609)-734-3120 |for Windows/95 and Windows/NT on the Pentium ftp://ftp.sarnoff.com/pub/mnfs/www/docs/cluster.html ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 11 Jul 1997 07:02:01 -0700 (PDT) From: Michael Lobue <lobue@zocalo.net> To: rminnich@terra.sarnoff.com Cc: elaine@zocalo.net Subject: Re: NDA? Ran, The I2O Specification is available to non-members and non-licensees under nda and for a fee of $250 -- that's correct. The specification is not available for use outside of a license which is included with membership, because in order to implement to the spec. one would very likely infringe pre-existing patents for i/o or intelligent i/o. Obtaining a license through membership is probably a less expensive development/product path because all members participate in a royalty free cross licensing agreement for each others patents in this development space. The $250 fee is in place as a qualifier to attract those firms with a somewhat serious development interest. I hope this answers your question? Regards, Michael LoBue Executive Director LoBue@i2osig.org
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