- From: Matthieu Herrb <matthieu.herrb@laas.fr>
- Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2001 21:49:12 +0200 (CEST)
- To: www-patentpolicy-comment@w3.org
- CC: matthieu@openbsd.org
Hi, I'd like to add my voice to those telling that the RAND policy on W3C standards should not be adopted in any way. As many contributors already said it, the success of the web is largely base on open source and free software that will no longer be possible in a work where standard can be subject to restrictions because they're patented. Accepting patents on W3C standards will probably lead to a fork where the free software community will boycott and try to make the encumbered standards useless or worthless. My experiences as a developper for XFree86 and OpenBSD have shown that this kind of reaction have already happened and succeded (for instance by getting the X.org consortium to revert its licensing change on X11R6.4) NO PROPRIETARY STANDARDS, IN ANY WAY, SHAPE, OR FORM. -- Matthieu Herrb XFree86 and OpenBSD developper, Research Engineer, CNRS/LAAS, France.
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