- From: Matt Greer <tortus@rcnchicago.com>
- Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2001 14:12:21 -0500
- To: www-patentpolicy-comment@w3.org
Dear W3C, I am strongly opposed to the new proposal for RAND and the payment of royalties of any kind to the W3C. Open source software, such as Apache, PHP, and many others, depend on the W3C's current standards in order to create software that is truly royalty free and open source. Switching to a royalty based system would seriously jeopardize open source software. Please reconsider your proposal and find a more suitable way to raise funds for the W3C. Your organization does a great job and I think the internet community as a whole would be very willing to work through this without the need for a royalty system. Thanks for your time, Matt Greer tortus@rcnchicago.com
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