RAND licensing policy from Deke Clinger on 2001-09-30 (www-patentpolicy-comment@w3.org from September 2001)

From: Deke Clinger <dclinger@qualcomm.com>
Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2001 00:52:11 -0700 (PDT)
To: www-patentpolicy-comment@w3.org
Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.40.0109300033370.15406-100000@morgul.qualcomm.com>

To Whom it may concern,

I am shocked and appalled by the W3C plans to support patented technologies as
web standards. The history of the Internet, the Web and that which came before
their rise to household-name status should tell you everything you need to
know: that proprietary standards cannot achieve the global acceptance possible
with open, unencumbered standards.

Please don't do this.

Regards,

Deke Clinger

Received on Sunday, 30 September 2001 03:52:17 UTC