- From: Konrad Maquestieau <konrad@shortcircuit.be>
- Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2001 22:15:40 +0200 (CEST)
- To: www-patentpolicy-comment@w3.org
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Well, to put it simply:I don't like the proposal of a RAND-license. I don't understand that the w3c, who developped open standards for the users of the web-community ***as a whole***, is thinking of licensing some of its standards. Where is the logic? Maybe you have listened a little bit to much to your commercial partners. I hope you will be wise enough to understand that promoting a license will inevitably "closed" some of your standards. I come from the film business and I am sure that if Edison in late 1891 had licensed the 35mm filmformat (he obtained a patent for his invention of the Kinetograph), the film industry had never evolved to what it is now. I hope sincerely that the whole w3c, and Tim Berners-Lee in particular (a man for whom I have a great admiration for what he has done), re-think the need of this kind of license. kind regards, Konrad Maquestieau -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 6.5.8 iQEVAwUBO7d9cH2OuDqE6pMNAQFtKwf/bv5FBjr/4od5bXNIMRVW9Cg4VIbmrs4r kQ2s9CCdWudY7T7aad7sujcKJ4BDbStxT6FdOQaYgWY3SVjZ2LCmmlKpQMtOaUTv JJpTAEwWM5BElNSSVZ/pRdQJ018s5U46ElucLaBSK0Q6eTn0Q+JRNARMAanuF+Yl NZAJiHM4K9fbNEb6xT5D4kLRHrKYhUEGvpfKrzr/Ecu2hK/RK6hQoFdoiT9XPu2V yxTQI7Q7KO1G3In5jHKex7QjDkt1UhVvfiSJdYGsnL97Qex2KeNX708XpRSKElEf X+R88S0mq7sztkjqD/PeT2gyIR/fx21DjnzJ/mDQn6q8FCzzB9AdZA== =NQKA -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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