- From: Brian K. Hill <bhill@iglou.com>
- Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2001 23:37:05 -0400
- To: www-patentpolicy-comment@w3.org
I personally believe that the new policies that are being debated for possible passage, and eventual enforcement will cause the demise of the world wide web as a place for everyday people to post home pages, or any other personal web activity besides using it for email and e-retail because business will be the only ones able to afford to pay for the use of every file used to create their sites. The web will no longer be a place for every person to have a presence. It will turn off many people, and cause a significant loss of people who use the web. Thereby causing a loss of possible e-retail business for those businesses on the web! Having a group of lawyers, one of whom represents Microsoft, and one of the others Hewlett-Packard on the committee for this decision with no one on the committee being anyone who has IT experience to be appalling. What are you people at the W3C thinking? I personally hope that this is not implemented, we web surfers and users were sold a bill of goods that told us that the world wide web was a place where not only business could thrive, and find new ways of reaching consumers, but also a place where all users could have a presence and share there unique personalities. This smacks of the almighty dollar once again trampling on what was once something everyone regardless of economic background, who could afford the approximately $20 it takes to access the web could have a presence on to now being once again a place where only those of unlimited wealth can attain. SHAME ON YOU!
Received on Tuesday, 2 October 2001 23:40:05 UTC