- From: Aaron Swartz <aswartz@upclink.com>
- Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2001 16:39:41 -0500
- To: www-patentpolicy-comment@w3.org
Re: http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/WD-patent-policy-20010816/ Clearly the Patent Policy has struck a nerve with the Web community, which, IMO is the W3C's number one constituency. The Patent Policy Working Group clearly owes the Web community an explanation of this draft, and I hope will clear these issues. However, I ask the the Patent Policy WG, and Tim Berners-Lee not advance this draft any further in W3C process until these issues are resolved. At this point, taking this draft any further without working with the Web community to explain these issues is a serious mistake. It's clearly essential that a standards body like the W3C ensure that all relevant patents are not used to prevent implementations of their specifications. These ideas should be available, royalty-free, without restriction to anyone. Anything else would make the W3C's work just another means of dividing people, rather than bringing the Web together as we all hope. I've been blogging links on the Patent Policy on the #rdfig scratchpad: http://rdfig.xmlhack.com/index.html (will be archived at: http://rdfig.xmlhack.com/2001/09/30/2001-09-30.html ) Thanks for considering these comments, -- "Aaron Swartz" | The Semantic Web <mailto:me@aaronsw.com> | <http://logicerror.com/semanticWeb-long> <http://www.aaronsw.com/> | i'm working to make it happen
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