- From: Darron Froese <darron@froese.org>
- Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2001 13:56:06 -0600
- To: <www-patentpolicy-comment@w3.org>
According to: http://www.w3.org/2001/08/16-PP-FAQ.html#[5-5] They don't even have to search their patent portfolio - they are supposed to just respond based on their "actual, personal knowledge of their organizations patent holdings and applications". If they dont disclose their patent holdings, they should /have/ to give a RF licence for use in that standard - with no exceptions. There's now way that a company should be able to say: "Oops, we forgot we sort of patented that - pay up." Allowing companies to profit and have a stranglehold on a W3C standard by somehow *omitting* their various patent holdings is akin to giving a child molester free reign in a daycare - you know he's going to offend, it's just a matter of when that occurs. You're making yourself more and more irrelevant W3C. -- darron
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