Subject: Re: placing a dollar value on IETF IP.

From: "TS Glassey" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2008 08:33:24 -0700

Ooops - forgot the link too the story on the valuation of the LINUX Kernel.

http://www.itbusinessedge.com/blogs/smb/?p=107&nr=dye
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From: "TS Glassey" <[email-masked]>
To: "IETF Discussion" <[email-masked]>; <[email-masked]>
Sent: Friday, October 24, 2008 8:27 AM
Subject: placing a dollar value on IETF IP.

> Since there is now a specific value estimated by the LINUX community at 
> 1.4B for the kernel itself, the IETF can no longer hide its head in the 
> sand claiming that its workproduct has no specific value. This also means 
> that ANY AND ALL contributions to the IETF no matter when they happened 
> now need to be formally acknowledged for their financial value at the time 
> of their contribution.
>
> This is not an OPTION.
>
> Todd Glassey 

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