It strikes me that (at least in Europe), _de jure_ #standards are no longer primarily seen by their sponsors as tools for #interoperability. Rather, they are now seen mainly as a way to force markets to pay royalties on SEPs (#patents essential for imp...
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It strikes me that (at least in Europe), _de jure_ #standards are no longer primarily seen by their sponsors as tools for #interoperability. Rather, they are now seen mainly as a way to force markets to pay royalties on SEPs (#patents essential for implementation of the standards) - that is, as a way to tax the interoperability that was supposed to reduce costs.
In the process, #OpenSource implementation is also chilled, but that's not the actual goal and is becoming increasingly inconvenient.
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