- From: Daniel Hartmeier <daniel@benzedrine.cx>
- Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2001 02:48:34 +0200
- To: www-patentpolicy-comment@w3.org
I strongly oppose RAND licensing. As an open source developer, I'm afraid of being locked out from using standards because I lack the financial strength of commercial competitors. A standard that I can't implement and share freely is useless to me. I've been supporting W3C in the past because I see standards as an important way to achieve interoperabitity between different implementations. The important standards I worked with have always been free. Everybody could use them. That's what made them strong. If patent holders can gain profits by pushing their patents into standards and collect royalties, of course they will do that. A standard that doesn't belong to the people is tainted, it's always inferior to a free one. Why would the W3C want to adopt it? Who does the W3C represent?
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