- From: Eric Hawk <ehawk@mines.edu>
- Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2001 11:14:38 -0600
- To: www-patentpolicy-comment@w3.org
I wish to express my opposition to any change in W3C liscensing which would involve the imposition of royalties upon world wide web standards. The legitimizing of such royalties would seriously impeded the development of open source software development in areas involving the web. A casual examination of the persons submitting these requests for liscencing changes suggests that these changes are being proposed by corporations (Microsoft, Apple Computers, Hewlett-Packard, Phillips) to undermine the expansion of open source software into web applications. The involvement of royalties in such standards inherently discriminates against open source applications, regardless of the claims of those submitting the proposed changes. Eric Hawk Physics Department Colorado School of Mines Golden, CO 80401 ehawk@mines.edu phone: 303-273-3896
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