- From: Victor Bogado da Silva Lins <bogado@visgraf.impa.br>
- Date: 05 Oct 2001 14:13:49 -0300
- To: www-patentpolicy-comment@w3.org
Even a very cheap and "reasonable" priced patent would hurt the development of free (as in speach) software. What would happen if someone would license a patent to create a free or even a public domain software? I tell you what would happen, this software would not be realy free or public. Patents by definition are ways to block freedom, is a legal way to create a monopoly. And being so they are by definition incompatible with eforts of the free software. By allowing big corporations to introduce terms of use and rules into the standards of the internet W3c will allow those big corporations to turn them into a tool to help them minimize the importance and capabilities of the free software. I want o be able to use and develop the standards without any restrictions. If the patent holders do not think that is fair, I simply don't want their technology to become standard. That is my opinion. -- []'s Victor Bogado da Silva Lins victor@bogado.net
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