<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><a href="http://arstechnica.co.uk/tech-policy/2016/04/anti-innovation-eu-excludes-open-source-from-new-tech-standards/" class="">http://arstechnica.co.uk/tech-policy/2016/04/anti-innovation-eu-excludes-open-source-from-new-tech-standards/</a><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="" style="color: rgb(38, 48, 52); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">ICT standardisation requires a balanced IPR [intellectual property rights] policy, based on FRAND licensing terms.</span></div><div class=""><span class="" style="color: rgb(38, 48, 52); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">FRAND licensing—the acronym stands for "fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory"—is incompatible with open source, which will therefore find itself excluded from much of the EU's grand new Digital Single Market strategy. </span></div><div class=""><span class="" style="color: rgb(38, 48, 52); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span class="" style="color: rgb(38, 48, 52); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Is this simple </span><font color="#263034" face="Arial, sans-serif" class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;">stupidity or is there some old-fashioned wrong-doing being perpertraded?</span></font></div><div class=""><font color="#263034" face="Arial, sans-serif" class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;"><br class=""></span></font></div><div class=""><font color="#263034" face="Arial, sans-serif" class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;">Anyone familiar with this process in this list who could provide a bit more insight?</span></font></div><div class=""><font color="#263034" face="Arial, sans-serif" class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;"><br class=""></span></font></div><div class=""><font color="#263034" face="Arial, sans-serif" class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;">Joao</span></font></div></body></html>