Another perspective on it: here's some technological "IP" I just wrote:
/* my_ip.c - [characteristically acerbic comment here] */
main()
{
printf ("(C) Michael Turner. All rights reserved.\n");
exit(-1);
}
Yes, this is "intellectual property," I'm sorry to say. As "property,"
it may be worth less than a homestead on a tiny sandbar in the
Mississippi delta; as "intellectual" production it might rank up there
somewhere with adolescent invective on SlashDot. It is, nevertheless,
IP. Moreover, it's *my* IP. So don't you go gettin' any ideas now,
y'hear?
Accordingly, when we read that "Openwave has contributed two
pieces of its IP to the project" -- especially in using such a
rigorous engineering unit of measure as "piece" -- it might mean
little more than "Openwave has some bug-ridden code with its
copyright notices in it."
Michael Turner
leap@gol.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Daniel Scuka" <daniel@japaninc.net>
To: <keitai-l@appelsiini.net>
Sent: Saturday, June 16, 2001 10:35 AM
Subject: (keitai-l) Who owns what in this industry
> The following was in the MforMobile email newsletter that I received today
> (http://www.mformobile.com/newsletters/newsletter213/newsletter213.html):
>
>
> "Openwave has contributed two pieces of its IP to the project. One piece
> consists of its extensions to the Wireless Markup Language, the WAP
> scripting language, which enables the creation of graphical user
> applications. The other is its download capability, which will allow
> carriers to deliver java applets, new ringtones, wallpaper and animations
to
> a handset and bill the user."
>
> I get frustrated when it is so difficult to figure out who owns what, or
> claims to own what, in this industry.
[snip]
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Received on Tue Jun 19 05:11:48 2001