- From: Rodent of Unusual Size <Ken.Coar@Golux.Com>
- Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2001 16:07:13 -0400
- To: www-patentpolicy-comment@w3.org
Please explain how RAND is supposed to improve the lot of anyone except licence holders? This seems like such an obvious sell-out by W3C that I am shocked and outraged almost beyond speech. It is such a clear betrayal of all the W3C was formed to support and protect that I am forced to wonder at the motives. I personally find it offensive and suspicious that the Last Call period is so brief (6 weeks) for such a far-reaching policy change, that once the Last Call ends it is final, and that the dissemination of the opening of the Last Call was done in such a way as to achieve virtually no community penetration or awareness. This sounds preposterously like a situation in the U.S. (or possibly it was the Massachusetts) legislature a few years ago, which would have resulted in the representatives automatically receiving a substantial pay rise if the issue was *not* voted. -- Ken Coar VP and director, Apache Software Foundation
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