- From: Pawel Krawczyk <kravietz@aba.krakow.pl>
- Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2001 20:59:51 +0200
- To: www-patentpolicy-comment@w3.org
Dear W3C Members, please consider that introducing the new policy of paid standards will be a very big problems for the open-source developers community. The latter has been growing over the past years and now is producing a huge amount of popular software, including Apache, Mozilla but also thousands of other programs used by thousands of schools, universities, companies and private persons. Preventing them from accessing the future web definitions breaks the whole idea of open standards and takes us back to the dark ages of competing companies, developing their own incompatible proprietary protocols. I recognize that the proposed policy may be very attractive for some of the Consortium members, that would directly take benefit from reducing strong competition introduced by the open source software. But please remember that W3C was created to promote open standards, and openness in this case means also availability to all interested parties. -- Paweł Krawczyk *** home: <http://ceti.pl/~kravietz/> security: <http://ipsec.pl/> *** fidonet: 2:486/23
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