- From: Timo <Blazko> Boewing <blazko@online.de>
- Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2001 10:46:48 +0200
- To: www-patentpolicy-comment@w3.org
Just my two cents.... I think that everything important was said already, but when I read the news on W3C patent policy on Slashdot, I was really shocked. Did we not learn enough from the past? Open standards are the key for all: competitors, developers and users. Everyone has to get access to web standards to keep things goung well. Remembering past incompats between IE and Netscape? A really annoying affair that those two browsers had little common standards. Now, in the time of mozilla, konqueror opera and others, it is a real gift that we have the choice between more products. As Alan Cox spoke out, I see the danger that there might be pages just for users of IE (including WMA and JScript /w ActiveX etcetera), preventingothers to visit a site or use their contents. MS might propose a standard (-> patent), implement it into its browser, and all others have to pay to get the specs. No, that is not the way it's gonna be. People might going on creating closed source, but standards HAVE TO BE FREE (like in freedom *and* in beer!!!). The future of freedom depends on it and the life of untied developers and smaller enterprises. greetings from germany, Timo Boewing
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