- From: Rich Salz <rsalz@zolera.com>
- Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2001 11:16:43 -0400
- To: www-patentpolicy-comment@w3.org
I do not understand how a RAND policy addresses any of the concerns that cannot be addressed in an RF policy. RF never pretended that patents did not exist. The rationale implies that RAND will help prevent submarine patents because corporations will be incented to disclose so that they can receive royalties. How is this different for RF? The only difference is now they get royalties for a web standard, whereas before they could incur enmity from those developing a standard. The proposed policy change incents greed and intellectual property landgrabs. Don't do it. /r$ -- Zolera Systems, Your Key to Online Integrity Securing Web services: XML, SOAP, Dig-sig, Encryption http://www.zolera.com
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