Hello Alan,
Can you point to some source where you got the below information:
: At least in the USA the patent requirements and royalties make it
impractical
: to do WAP clients. Apache can be told the wap mime types but remember if
you
: are operating the server in the USA you may need to pay about $10K/year to
: run your server.
Concerning the client side, it seems very logical that the mobile companies
will be paying a client license (or some part of your usage bill) for the
browser. But for the server, www.wapforum.com consistantly states that it
is an open standard and only refers to requirements for using their logo on
your server.
Sincerely,
John
----- Original Message -----
From: "Alan Cox" <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: "Chetan Sakhardande" <chetan@m-net.arbornet.org>
Cc: <linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu>
Sent: Saturday, March 04, 2000 8:06 PM
Subject: Re: WAP for Linux
: > Not sure whether this is the correct list for this question, but is
there
: > any WAP suite under development or already developed for Linux ?
:
: At least in the USA the patent requirements and royalties make it
impractical
: to do WAP clients. Apache can be told the wap mime types but remember if
you
: are operating the server in the USA you may need to pay about $10K/year to
: run your server.
:
: Either way WAP is user space so outside of the kernel issues. There are
one
: or two people working on simple WAP tools in europe, and its possible
: that Mozilla will support WAP although I guess the patents killed that
:
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