- From: Sean <lakese@sas.upenn.edu>
- Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2001 13:15:42 -0400
- To: www-patentpolicy-comment@w3.org
Setting a still patented technology as a standard would only make the broken patent and copyright system worse. Copyrights are supposed to offer a monopoly that is both limited in scope and duration. Both of those limits have been stretched extensively in recent years, and standardizing on a patented technology would only make it worse. Standardizing on a patented technology would effectively extend the patent holder's monopoly to all technologies of the same type, discouraging competition and increasing cost to consumers. Please, only standardize technologies that are open and free to everyone. Thank you for your time, Sean Lake
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