- From: julesa <julesa@pcf.com>
- Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2001 11:54:20 -0400
- To: www-patentpolicy-comment@w3.org
Please reconsider endorsing patent-encumbered standards. Lately people only seem to consider the Internet as the new growth center of commerce. It is also the most effective medium for communication between individuals and groups of individuals ever created, and every day someone invents a new method of communication over this medium. If some essential part of the Internet infrastructure is controlled by any commercial entity, it becomes their obligation to their stockholders to exploit that infrastructure in whatever way will be most profitable. Many of the innovations that have made the Internet great have come from the minds of individuals who don't have the resources to pay patent licensing fees. Please keep the Internet's infrastructure free of patent restrictions, in order to keep our collective wealth of new ideas growing. -- Jules Agee UNIX System Administrator
Received on Sunday, 30 September 2001 14:52:13 UTC