Comments on: Baker & McKenzie Paper On OpenXML IP Rights, Reviews Broader Industry Approach http://osrin.net/2008/01/baker-mckenzie-paper-on-openxml-ip-rights-reviews-broader-industry-approach/ Notes from fourty one degrees south... Thu, 01 Jul 2010 05:45:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: oliver http://osrin.net/2008/01/baker-mckenzie-paper-on-openxml-ip-rights-reviews-broader-industry-approach/comment-page-1/#comment-155 oliver Tue, 29 Jan 2008 00:48:58 +0000 http://osrin.net/2008/01/29/baker-mckenzie-paper-on-openxml-ip-rights-reviews-broader-industry-approach/#comment-155 That is a convincing sounding statment Andre, doesn't it apply equally to any contract ever written, by anybody, anywhere? What you write sounds alarming to a technologist,our world is binary, however what you describe is the bounds that every lawyer operates in every day. The OSP, like the grants from Sun and IBM, covers many specs today. Those protocols, specifcations and standards are in use in a range of different projects, some of which I suspect you already use. The OSP itself was welcomed when we first introduced it by a number of well respected lawyers, both in the <a href="http://www.consortiuminfo.org/standardsblog/article.php?story=20060912140103877" rel="nofollow">open source community</a> and elsewhere. At the same time, as the Baker report shows, the language used in the OSP is very similar to langage used in similar grants by other companies. That is a convincing sounding statment Andre, doesn’t it apply equally to any contract ever written, by anybody, anywhere?

What you write sounds alarming to a technologist,our world is binary, however what you describe is the bounds that every lawyer operates in every day.

The OSP, like the grants from Sun and IBM, covers many specs today. Those protocols, specifcations and standards are in use in a range of different projects, some of which I suspect you already use. The OSP itself was welcomed when we first introduced it by a number of well respected lawyers, both in the open source community and elsewhere. At the same time, as the Baker report shows, the language used in the OSP is very similar to langage used in similar grants by other companies.

]]> By: Andre http://osrin.net/2008/01/baker-mckenzie-paper-on-openxml-ip-rights-reviews-broader-industry-approach/comment-page-1/#comment-153 Andre Mon, 28 Jan 2008 21:06:05 +0000 http://osrin.net/2008/01/29/baker-mckenzie-paper-on-openxml-ip-rights-reviews-broader-industry-approach/#comment-153 No one knows if the OSP is applicable on a worldwide scale and grants sufficient permissions. It is nice to get a better paper of Baker&McKenzie than the previous one, but still it does not answer the most important questions (validity and scope) and does not use analytical methods according to legal professional standards but epical explanations. No one knows if the OSP is applicable on a worldwide scale and grants sufficient permissions. It is nice to get a better paper of Baker&McKenzie than the previous one, but still it does not answer the most important questions (validity and scope) and does not use analytical methods according to legal professional standards but epical explanations.

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