- From: Peter Adamson <padamson@rochma.co.uk>
- Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2001 09:31:24 +0100
- To: www-patentpolicy-comment@w3.org
Having read the W3C Patent Policy Framework the following thoughts come to mind: I do not see any provision that would prevent a corporation from misusing the RAND licencing terms to engineer a situation where the whole Web or even the whole Internet would become dependent upon their patents, and subsequently milking them. Given that this is precisely what every large corporation backing the proposal has in mind, the danger is not remote. Given that the whole question of software patents is open to debate at this time, and given the utterly absurd patents granted by the US patent office, it seems an inappropriate time to forge ahead in a nebulous area awaiting clarification by developed countries. Regards, Peter Adamson ______________________________ Rochma Consulting Limited Tel: +44 (0)1202 746 341 Fax: +44 (0)1202 739 116 Mob: +44 (0)7960 226 926 email: padamson@rochma.co.uk
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