- From: Georg Bauer <bauer@gws.ms>
- Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2001 13:15:40 +0200
- To: www-patentpolicy-comment@w3.org
Hi! I think you should think about the Role the X Consortium had: they too changed from a free system to something requiring fees. They had a hard time with their decision and ultimately changed back. For such backbone techiniques like the Web there is absolutely no reason to go any way that is not free. Implementing "standards" that require license fees will just demolish those "standards" just before they even can become real standards - a large body of software on the Web is free software and those won't support non-free alternatives. We don't need another GIF debacle. Actually I think that the W3C should take another route and enforce Free Software Guidlines compliant licenses on all techniques that are used for their standards. This would ensure a maximum base of implementations, which is always a good thing. bye, Georg Bauer
Received on Monday, 1 October 2001 07:15:46 UTC