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Thanks for the link to Patent Commons. I'd highly recommend that you check out the mailing list as this topic is being covered currently:

http://groups.google.com/group/open-w... – Chris Messina, on October 13, 2008 04:08

tabesin replied on October 11, 2008 15:34 to the question "What are the requirements for participating as an individual?" in Open Web Foundation:

Thanks for the information,

what approach do you aim to follow: RF or RAND? Or haven't you decided yet. It all boils down to that question which is the heart of standard politics.

Patent indemnification and licensing is a legal field under development and a worldwide applicable and tested model is not existing yet. Private law is internationally very much diverse. We don't have unified license models. See http://www.patentcommons.org/ for parts of the current model zoo.

Sam Alexander replied on September 30, 2008 19:21 to the idea "OpenID Selector" in Vidoop:

Sounds great! We'll do what we can to work with JanRain and make this happen.

Chris Messina replied on August 19, 2008 18:10 to the question "What are the requirements for participating as an individual?" in Open Web Foundation:

Additionally, the non-assert approach is the one that, in recent years, has proven the most widely "acceptable" for large companies that can offer us scale and motivate implementation of various software ideas or protocols. Other approaches have that attempted (for example) to set scope of work or protocol often take months to negotiate before any spec work even begins!

We're attempting to offer an alternative approach that allows communities and individuals and small organizations to come together to solve mutual problems (i.e. solutions like oEmbed) that can then be offered up to larger companies to implement with clean IP.

We aren't going to solve software patents with the OWF, but it will give us an alternative approach in the meanwhile until (and whether or not) patent law is improved.

Steve replied on August 19, 2008 17:32 to the question "What are the requirements for participating as an individual?" in Open Web Foundation:

Ah, I see.

Addressing the "fears/concerns of companies" does NOT mean being pro-software-patent. It does mean working within the current patent/IPR environment (encouraging companies to commit to non-assert agreements which protect everyone's right to implement a spec).

At the same time, I think you'll find most everyone involved with OWF encouraging companies to forego software patents in favor of open specs/standards and community building around those standards.

tabesin replied on August 19, 2008 17:23 to the question "What are the requirements for participating as an individual?" in Open Web Foundation:

"We're *very* early in terms of the structure right now -- we've primarily been focused on nailing down an IPR agreement that weighs the needs and protection of individuals with the fears/concerns of companies."

Steve replied on August 19, 2008 17:21 to the question "What are the requirements for participating as an individual?" in Open Web Foundation:

@tabesin: I don't see any way to get "pro software patent stance" out of what Chris wrote - OWF is in fact pushing the opposite. I'd rather not assume you're trolling - can you explain how you came to your understanding?

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tabesin replied on August 19, 2008 17:07 to the question "What are the requirements for participating as an individual?" in Open Web Foundation:

So in other words you propose a pro software patent stance?

Sean replied on August 13, 2008 22:13 to the discussion "Asking for users' 3rd party service passwords" in Ping.fm:

We're building intop the OAuth system for the few sites that support it (Plaxo, Brightkite, Myspace, Pownce, Zooomr). If they offer it, we plan to use it.

This conversion will more than likely affect the portability of some features, so let's hope everyone makes their API friendly.

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Steve replied on August 13, 2008 14:42 to the discussion "Asking for users' 3rd party service passwords" in Ping.fm:

I'll echo Jeff's request for OAuth support. I recognize hat OAuth is a chicken-meet-egg problem, but how do we get movement until the connecting apps (plaxo, ping.fm, etc) are willing to say "we need this" to the sites they're talking to?

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Chris Messina replied on July 24, 2008 18:02 to the question "What are the requirements for participating as an individual?" in Open Web Foundation:

Great question Steve -- the initial list of folks is there primarily as a stub based on the folks who have been going around for awhile trying to get this off the ground. We started with a small, dedicated group of folks who had this problem pressing upon them (i.e. seeing a need to create another foundation-like structure to hold OAuth).

We are currently working out our approach to membership, but we're going to lean heavily on the "open source model" as pioneered by ASF and others.

We're *very* early in terms of the structure right now -- we've primarily been focused on nailing down an IPR agreement that weighs the needs and protection of individuals with the fears/concerns of companies. We should have more clarity on this over the next month -- and invite your thoughts on the mailing list.

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