> Patents on standards is largely how standards are financed, by company who will then recoup their research spent on that via those patents. Thankfully those

> Patents on standards is largely how standards are financed, by company who will then recoup their research spent on that via those patents. Thankfully those companies have a sense of fair play, and wouldn't dream of charging more than they spent on research, or of using patented standard to stifle competition for anyone not in their industry group.