Once More Into the Breach: Corwin’s Razor and the OASIS IPR Policy

“In the heyday of POSIX in the very early 1990s, two ugly
burdens were bogging down the people in the working groups that
were actually present to do the technical specification work. One
such requirement was placed on the IEEE work from outside. ISO had
a say in how it would approve the IEEE standards for ISO
standardization and placed considerable additional work on the IEEE
groups. The relevant ISO working group wasn’t going to help with
all the additional work requirements. The Chair of the IEEE
Real-time working group observed, ‘If they’re not willing to put
their money where their mouth is, they’re not a customer.’ We
grabbed it and Corwin’s Razor was born…”

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