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

[Harald Alvestrand]

Peter Eckersley wrote:
> 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." ?
or perhaps stop the sentence after "without an expectation of economic
rewards"?
After all, software produced and financed on the "adware" model
definitely returns economic rewards, but not from sale or licensing of
the code.

I would delete "standards and protocols" from this sentence too - it has
been a VERY long time since anyone made a significant amount of money
from licensing a standard or a protocol, AFAIK.

(the money garnered by the ITU printing office is peanuts)

So I'd suggest:

   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.

   On the other hand, some important software products are unlikely to
be produced
   without an expectation of economic rewards.

                    Harald