Re:What a crock (Score 1)

You miss the point. Standards are a great thing and everyone should build products around standards or risk being isolated by the market. However, if you have implemented a solution and created compelling product that gives customers a reason to select your implementation of the standard, you should have the choice to either retain the intellectual property you used to build the product or give it away if you choose. Forcing people to always give away all their innovation means they ultimately have no way to earn revenue through unique differentiation - which leads to commercial failure.