- From: Mathias BAVAY <bavaym@cegramat.fr>
- Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2001 09:48:16 +0200
- To: www-patentpolicy-comment@w3.org
Hi, I think that the main role of W3C in the world is not to patent web standards and to promote its own, newly created patents. If we want the internet to be open for everybody, for both rich countries and developping countries, if we want the internet to be shared between different operating systems, between different king of machines (PDA, network appliance, ...), we MUST promote interoperability and provide standards for FREE and OPEN to every developper. The internet has succeded thanks to its openess; networks based on private technologies have been a FAILURE, so don't kill the internet with the RAND licencing. I thing the solution would be to licence technologies using some kind of open-source licence. The goal would be to enable everybody to implement the W3C technologies, to be able to make money with these implementations but to prevent people form adding private features usually only usefull to prevent interroperability (to prevent things like Microsoft and the Kerberos compatibility in Win2k, for example). To reach that goal, you're asking the right question, but the RAND is the WRONG answer. Please, fight against pressure from giant companies, OUR future is in YOUR hands ! Mathias BAVAY -- BavayM@CeGramat.fr 05.65.10.57.45 ------------------------
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