- From: <matthew.copeland@honeywell.com>
- Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2001 15:49:43 +0000 (UTC)
- To: www-patentpolicy-comment@w3.org
Let's think about this for a moment. Allow some company to hold a patent on any portion of an international standard without being required to provide free licensing to anyone who wants it. Well, the average person would say, "Duh, that's a bad idea". The W3C should be doing the exact opposite then what it is currently considering. Patents work directly against open standards, when there is no requirement of free licensing. The W3C would be better off staying as far away from patented technologies as possible. The W3C should include a new requirement. If anyone has a patent on any part of a proposed open standard, that proposal should automatically be rejected. There is no place for patents in open standards. A proposal isn't Open, if some company or person controls the way in which you can use that standard. Matthew M. Copeland
Received on Monday, 1 October 2001 11:55:28 UTC