- From: Marcello Della Longa <mdellalonga@yahoo.com>
- Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2001 16:17:49 +0200 (CEST)
- To: www-patentpolicy-comment@w3.org
People who read about RAND and don't agree with it (the majority, it seems) will lose trust in the W3C, so the adoption of xml for data exchange may be seriously reconsidered by lots of developers: why spending money and resources to adhere to a W3C standard when you can use your own or a free one (which is likely to come from open source projects)? Of course the survival of proprietary standards will slow down IT development, but it's still better than depending on a patent policy, especially if the company who owns the patent seems to have forgotten its primary goals. I don't know how the license may affect html, i hope not to put a telnet address in my business card :) ______________________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Il tuo indirizzo gratis e per sempre @yahoo.it su http://mail.yahoo.it
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