- From: James Lamm <lamm@huey.met.fsu.edu>
- Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2001 10:37:26 -0400
- To: www-patentpolicy-comment@w3.org
This is an absolute pandora's box. This is about the worst mistake the w3c could ever do. The result will be that companies will have patented technologies that free or reduced price software could never include. This will force consumers to pay for operating systems like windows no matter the price. You can already see the huge price gouging that takes place when consumers have no choice. Just look what Microsoft is asking its customers to pay every 18 months (with Office XP) to comply to the industry wide document standard. Is that what you want for the web? This works against cheap/reduced software and open competition. James lamm Ph. D. computer science
Received on Thursday, 4 October 2001 10:19:38 UTC