On Thu, Sep 30, 2010, Jamie Clark wrote:
> Today's chat is about the OOR "ontology IPR solution"
> strawman, posted yesterday at:
>http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OpenOntologyRepository_IPR/Discussion#nid2I83
> There's a second thread about proposed community policy &
> legislative statements at:
>http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OpenOntologyRepository_IPR/Discussion#nid2I8C
> * * * (01)
Again, these are my thoughts so far, without having yet heard the
discussion. These are contributions in a personal capacity, not
representing OASIS. Just sending this to make discussion artifacts
easier. (02)
As for the proposed policy & legislative position paper activity.
While personally I agree with those tenets, I have some doubts about
them showing up here. (03)
a. I'm not sure they should be linked to the OOR project, so as to
seem a demand that all OOR participants or contributors also join a
policy campaign. Which goal is foremost for the OOR group? (04)
b. The first proposition ("ontologies should not be patentable") may
still need some work to be optimally convincing. I think that's a
very worthy project, for a subset of this community who wishes to do
so. Love to join that. But I wasn't sure the argument is ready for
prime time, based on the prior discussions I've heard. (05)
c. While I admit to owning apparel that says 'no software patents'
for a decade or so, I'm not THIS group has a special competency to
make statements about that. Aren't there already existing groups and
better fora for that campaign? (06)
d. I also have a faint sense that, if anything, our broader community
should be saving up our bullets for a re-stated issue about open
information and its economics. If one wants, for example, to support
Carl Malamud's efforts, a lot of the obstacles his opendata government
work encounters are about economic model, not precisely IPR legalisms. (07)
Regards Jamie (08)
~ James Bryce Clark
~ General Counsel, OASIS
~ http://www.oasis-open.org/who/staff.php#clark @JamieXML (09)
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