<div dir="ltr">Cameron -<div><br></div><div>Thanks for the clarifications.</div><div><br></div><div>Just one clarification to your clarifications: Esri was not looking for royalty payments or some level of licensing. They had agreed to vest all IP with the OGC so that the standard could have been released as an open standard on a Royalty Free, non-discriminatory basis.</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers</div><div><br>Carl</div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 1:27 PM, Cameron Shorter <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cameron.shorter@gmail.com" target="_blank">cameron.shorter@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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Hi Henrique,<br>
It appears from your arguments that you are approaching the wrong
people for support, and probably should be looking elsewhere.<br>
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<div>On 21/10/2015 12:41 am, Munich
Orientation Convention wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">The definition of these
relevant urban poles is a result of many years of hard work
and I claim intellectual property.</span></p>
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If you are looking to charge for the use of your IP, then that IP
would, by definition not be included in an Open Standard, and would
be a hindrance to the Open Source Community.<br>
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If you are looking to give away the IP, you still have to build up a
groundswell of users wanting your proposed standard before there is
a business case to switch. Just because it might be better (I'm not
convinced, but you might be right) doesn't by itself attract users.
The dvorak keyboard is better than qwerty, Esperanto is better than
English, yet I am still writing English on querty keyboards.<br>
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<span lang="EN-US"> is there the possibility to create a premium
standard for premium members? </span></blockquote>
Not according to history. ESRI tried and failed:<br>
<span lang="PT-BR"><u></u><u></u></span><a href="http://www.itnews.com.au/news/open-source-crusade-blocks-geospatial-standard-345493/page0" target="_blank">http://www.itnews.com.au/news/open-source-crusade-blocks-geospatial-standard-345493/page0</a><br>
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This is the last email I'll write on this subject.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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