Author: Edward Screven
Date: 11:18:32 01/19/01
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On January 18, 2001 at 18:28:31, Wayde Beasley wrote: > Nobody owns the PGN, EPD, FEN, ISO, ANSI standards any more > than I own the Heimlich Manuever. your generalization is incorrect. many standards are protected through copyrights and trademarks to such a degree that any reasonable person would agree that the owner of the copyrights and trademarks is the owner of the standard. now you are correct that to be successful a standard needs to have acceptance by concensus. given the number of engines that have implemented the xboard protocol, only a fool would argue that it isn't a standard. as to the question of ownership of the xboard standard, tim hasn't taken the same kind of steps that standards bodies often take to retain control of a standard, so i wouldn't say he actually owns the standard. but as long as engine authors continue to implement the changes he makes to the protocol, he *does* own it in a practical sense. - edward
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