- From: <mate@sci.brooklyn.cuny.edu>
- Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2001 14:57:24 -0400
- To: www-patentpolicy-comment@w3.org
Attila Mate 77 West 15th Street, Apt. 5J New York, NY 10011-6832 Dear Sir/Madam: Sun Sep 30 02:41:12 PM EDT 2001 I believe your proposal on patents would destroy the relevance of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), and would seriously damage the World Wide Web itself. In order to avoid this dangerous course, I believe W3C should firmly insist on a policy of requiring that the standards it endorses incorporate no patents or other intellectual property unless the holder of those patents or intellectual property agrees to license it free of charge and without restrictions to any and all for the purpose of creating and reading Web pages, and for the purpose of creating software connected with the creating, maintaining, reading, and displaying of Web pages, whether these Web pages are placed on the World Wide Web or they are placed on an internal network. Anything less than a clear policy to this effect will result in the splintering of the World Wide Web and/or its takeover by one or more private companies. The public would not be well served by such a course. I hope you will be able to give my comments serious consideration. Sincerely yours, Attila Mate Professor of Mathematics mate@sci.brooklyn.cuny.edu http://www.sci.brooklyn.cuny.edu/~mate/ Home phone: (212)929-0966
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