even wat verder zoeken, voor de meesten misschien gesneden koek, maar voor mij verhelderend:
In other OpenTV news:
The company said last week that it has agreed to participate in and contribute intellectual property to CableLabs' OpenCable Project. The project was established by CableLabs (the latter is a research, development and standards body supported by US cable operators) and its member companies in 1997 to develop hardware and software specifications that enable interoperable digital cable devices: OCAP (which stands for "OpenCable Application Platform") is the project's software specification. OpenTV's participation in the project will see it licensing OCAP-relevant patents through the OCAP patent pool which is administered by Via Licensing. Its decision to contribute its intellectual property to the OpenCable Project is a significant boost to the latter, not least because OpenTV has over 450 issued patents around the world, the bulk of which are interactive TV-related. [itvt] asked Jim Chiddix why OpenTV, while having for a long time signalled support for OCAP, had until now seemingly resisted signing the OpenCable Contribution Agreement: "While, for a lot of companies, it would be no big deal, signing the agreement was a big step for us," he said. "When you sign that agreement, there are two things you're committing to: one is that you're committing to sending engineers to committee meetings, and to helping evolve the standard and so forth. That, obviously, wasn't problematic for us. The other thing you're committing to is, if you have patents that impact OCAP, you're committing to licensing those patents on fair and reasonable terms. And for us it is not at all a casual step to contribute our patents." We asked Chiddix why the company had, after all, decided to contribute its patents to the OpenCable project: "In looking at the OCAP market, we've decided that we want to embrace that market fully," he explained. "So, on the one hand, we've done this deal with Time Warner Cable that has an OCAP element, and we're also trying to secure similar deals with other US MSO's. And, on the other hand, we've decided that we're going to try to generate revenue out of OCAP by bringing our expertise on supporting middleware systems generally to the OCAP world. We've got more experience than anybody in the world in supporting this kind of platform--in terms of application servers, the porting of software to set-top boxes, and certification and testing."
(http://blog.itvt.com/my_weblog/2006/06/opentv_secures_.html)
gr.b.