- From: <bal_cyberdude@gmx.net>
- Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2001 02:15:26 +0200 (MEST)
- To: www-patentpolicy-comment@w3.org
please consider that a "reasonable and non-discriminatory" license IS discriminating as soon as it is asking for fees to be paid, for some people/organizations willing to implement a standard will not have the resources to pay those fees. the w3c recommendations and specifications have been of great value to the web community, being the only standard that could be used by anyone and expected to work with all major software products of any company or open source project. if the w3c starts promoting "standards" which are not freely availabe and implementable by anyone, those "standards" do not deserve to be called so anymore and the w3c itself would lose the acceptance it has had in the community. the consequence would probably be many organizations fighting for acceptance of their standards and as a result a major confusion and probably also a slowdown of innovation. since this cannot be the goal of the w3c i hope you will reconsider your position towards so-called RAND licenses. bjoern andreas lemburg -- GMX - Die Kommunikationsplattform im Internet. http://www.gmx.net
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