- From: Boyd Fletcher <boydfletcher@home.com>
- Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2001 23:49:32 -0400
- To: www-patentpolicy-comment@w3.org, micheleh@microsoft.com, scott_k_peterson@hp.com, tony.piotrowski@philips.com, "\"\"tony.piotrowski\"@philips.com;djweitzner@w3.org"@tux.w3.org, plotka@apple.com, timbl@w3.org, comment@openphd.net
W3C, Please reconsider the RAND Policy by removing it from consideration. The Internet's growth has only been possible because of free and open standards. Please do not let corporate greed stand in the way of doing what's right. It was the free and open nature of TCP/IP that allows the Internet to exist, it is the free and open nature of SMTP that allows us to communicate, it is the free and open nature to HTTP that allows us to share knowledge. Don't destroy the value and importance the W3C has in the world IT community by approving this policy. Look what corporate greed did to the Open Source Foundation and the Motif widget library. When was the last time you heard of anyone using Motif.? Too many people have worked too long and hard to let the last 25 years go to waste. Only with a patent and royality free internet will the world have true competition, universal communication, and universal information sharing... Boyd Fletcher
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