- From: David Jander <david.jander@protonic.nl>
- Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2001 09:16:49 +0200
- To: www-patentpolicy-comment@w3.org
RAND will not work. Open-source software development is not possible anymore if patneted standards are in the way. But open-source software is what mainly powers the internet these days. If the W3C is turning their back on the open-source community, internet as it is today will cease to exist. If that is your goal, be careful, since that could as well kill the W3C as a standard. Standards have to be open, or else there will be always a strong force against them. It happened to X-Open, it happened to GIF (from Unisys) and it could happen with the W3C also. If W3C was to adopt RAND, I would encourage the free internet community to create a new standard organization to supercede W3C. I am not alone with this thought, and I am sure this is very likely to happen in this event. Furthermore I support the comment of Alan Cox on LinuxToday: http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2001-09-30-010-20-OP-CY
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