[Odrl-interest] Comments on REL patents, third-party standards, and MPEG LA

These [Odrl-interest] Comments on REL patents, third-party standards, and MPEG LA by Steve Rowat came to me via Stephen Downes’ OLDaily. Here a former patent industry worker says “bowing to such a demand – to pay for patents that are likely not valid to begin with – is opening the door to a much worse place; in the same way that giving in to kidnappers demands is, in the long-term, a bad idea.”