patents in your standards

• From: HILL, WILLIAM <whill1@entergy.com>
• Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2001 15:25:03 -0500
• To: "'www-patentpolicy-comment@w3.org'" <www-patentpolicy-comment@w3.org>
• Message-ID: <97E75CC4C2ABD211827400105A24866504BD5B7B@rbs-exs01.rbnet.entergy.com>

Basing your standards on patented methods will fragment the web and destroy
your organization.  If you succeed in forcing such debased standards on the
web, your corporate masters will no longer need you.  If you fail, you will
be irrelevant.  Either way W3C loses.

Received on Sunday, 30 September 2001 16:25:30 UTC