No Patents from Hans Fiby on 2001-10-02 (www-patentpolicy-comment@w3.org from October 2001)

From: Hans Fiby <fiby@austriaone.at>
Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2001 00:13:30 +0200
To: www-patentpolicy-comment@w3c.org
Message-ID: <3BBA3C0A.ED519917@austriaone.at>

I think software patents are a bad thing.

I think software patents for the WWW are a even worse thing.

The web has come a long way without patented parts.

If W3C now thinks that the web should consist of patented software,
it might not take long and people will roll their own without W3C.

Hans Fiby

Received on Tuesday, 2 October 2001 18:08:28 UTC