[A2k] Proposals for the section of the Paris Accord on Software

[Peter Eckersley]

On Sun, Jun 04, 2006 at 03:55:11AM -0400, James Love wrote:

> 4.  Some high quality software products, standards, and protocols,
> can and will be produced without regard to ownership or control of
> software code, or any expectation of remuneration or other pecuniary
> reward from the sale or licensing of the code.   Other important
> software products, standards and protocols are unlikely to be
> produced without an expectation of economic rewards from the sale or
> licensing of the code.

How about changing that last phrase to "unlikely to be produced unless
economic incentives are available from sale or licensing of the code, or from
other sources of funding." ?

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Peter Eckersley
Department of Computer Science   &                  mailto:pde@cs.mu.oz.au
IP Research Institute of Australia             http://www.cs.mu.oz.au/~pde
The University of Melbourne