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As a matter of policy, I avoid looking into details of patents, but from the title, I thought the patent was about something the server does, routing or somethi
by toast0 2y ago
As a matter of policy, I avoid looking into details of patents, but from the title, I thought the patent was about something the server does, routing or something? In which case, infringement or licensing would scale with the number of users, not the number of shipped clients.
This was around the same time that Apple was charging for OS upgrades, at least on Mac, and I think they wouldn't have wanted to pay for something they were providing for free.
- viraptor 2y agoMaking the protocol a standard doesn't mean they have to accept every client. They already restrict that.
- toast0 2y agoMaking it an open standard and then not accepting any clients but their own is an option I didn't even consider. Not sure it would help them build their network, but I guess it's an option.