After decades of hassle with incompatible national standards for power plugs, the world seems to have finally come to its senses as more and more countries are adopting the International Free Plug (IFP) standard and requiring national power companies to either use that standard or provide full two-way interoperability with IFP.
Worldwide Power, Inc. is very pleased that this is happening, and we are strong supporters of open standards. Because of this, we would like to offer you the choice of yet another open standard for power plugs: the World Open Plug (WOP). WOP is almost as compatible as IFP with most of the older plug standards and, perhaps most importantly, it is 100% compatible with our own versions of legacy plugs (unless they are more than ten years old). WOP is not compatible with IFP, and we are unable to provide adaptors or converters between the two formats, but to make up for that inconvenience, our new and improved power plug standard contains many independent and protected innovations which you can only enjoy by using our WOP standard.
For the time being, you can only use our plugs reliably within our own power grid, but we are sure this will change, now that another international plug standard has been presented to promote consumer choice and spur innovation.
Because our standard is open, anyone can implement and use it. If you would like to use OWP in your own power grid or in your own appliance products, please contact our licensing department for details. We are sure you will find our royalty fees and our conditions for use reasonable.
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