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I've been told that the political machinations on the committees that decide hardware standards are far more cutthroat than software standards. Software patents
by gamble 17y ago
I've been told that the political machinations on the committees that decide hardware standards are far more cutthroat than software standards. Software patents aren't very lucrative, whereas owning a patent that's necessary to implement a hardware standard with millions of licensed devices (networking, media, etc) can be worth an awful lot of money for the patent holder.
- philwelch 17y agoThat makes sense. In software, markets have more say in standards than standards bodies. This can be good and bad (such as when IE-HTML/CSS becomes the market standard rather than W3C HTML/CSS).