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Re: [antitrust-policy] how does that affect those with no competitive interests?

Jorge Contreras <cntreras@gmail.com> Fri, 20 January 2012 21:48 UTC

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From: Jorge Contreras <cntreras@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [antitrust-policy] how does that affect those with no competitive interests?
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On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 3:42 PM, Stephen Farrell
<stephen.farrell@cs.tcd.ie>wrote:

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> I have no skin in the money games around the IETF these
> days since I currently work in a University.
>

You may not have a personal financial interest, but some universities these
days make a lot of money from their patent licensing programs, and many
more would like to.  Also, universities can and are sued for antitrust
violations, and there is no 'academic' immunity from these sorts of claims.
 Thus, your employer/university is not that different than a company in
this regard.


>
> ...
> Why can't I just ignore all this, since I'm not being
> anti-competitive even if I do some of these supposedly
> bad things?
>

see above


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