Comments on: French Interoperability: Reversed, Pinned, and Twisted into a Pretzel? http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2006/08/french_interope.html The Law, the Universe, and Everything Tue, 14 Feb 2012 11:44:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Frank http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2006/08/french_interope.html/comment-page-1#comment-57599 Frank Thu, 03 Aug 2006 17:02:59 +0000 http://www.solove.org/archives/2006/08/french-interoperability-reversed-pinned-and-twisted-into-a-pretzel.html#comment-57599 I think Scotchmer and Samuelson have some very good economic analysis of reverse engineering in their YLJ piece on the topic. As for licensing: who sets the license fee? If we follow the US rationale in Xerox vs. ISO's, Apple gets to set whatever license fee it wants. BUt if it's a compulsory license with reasonable rates, that may enhance interoperability. I think Scotchmer and Samuelson have some very good economic analysis of reverse engineering in their YLJ piece on the topic.

As for licensing: who sets the license fee? If we follow the US rationale in Xerox vs. ISO’s, Apple gets to set whatever license fee it wants. BUt if it’s a compulsory license with reasonable rates, that may enhance interoperability.

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