- From: Glen Scott <glen@designsolution.co.uk>
- Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2001 13:39:35 +0100
- To: www-patentpolicy-comment@w3.org
Hello, My thoughts on the Patent Policy Working Draft: The web has grown and developed at a tremendous speed due to the co-operative nature of developers. Patents will slow down and create complications that conflict with the concept of web-standards. Organisations with restrictive patent licences should not be allowed to contribute to web standards. The web is decentralized so patents need not affect it as in industries such as telecommunications etc. Therefore, I believe introducing the so called "RAND" licensing is a bad idea and should be dropped by the W3C. - Glen Scott, Design Solution Ltd -- --- Design Solution Limited t: +44 (0)1502 513008 f: +44 (0)1502 588622 e: info@designsolution.co.uk w: http://www.designsolution.co.uk Nouvotech House, Harbour Road, Oulton Broad, Suffolk, NR32 3LZ, UK --- DS Knowledge Base http://faq.dessol.co.uk
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