- From: Scott Maxwell <maxwell@ScottMaxwell.org>
- Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2001 14:42:12 -0700
- To: www-patentpolicy-comment@w3.org
Even "reasonable and non-discriminatory" patent licensing policies do, in practice, discriminate. They discriminate against free software projects by independent developers, the source of most innovation. The results for the Web would be obvious and catastrophic: a consolidation of power and control in the hands of large corporate players, with a concomitant stagnation of the Web's once vibrant landscape. This, no doubt, is precisely what the proposal's backers desire. I can see why they want you to endorse this policy, but I can't see why you would do it. Please drive a stake through this monster's heart before it drains the lifeblood of the Web. -- -------------------------+-------------------------------------------- R H L U Scott Maxwell: | ``Life results from the non-random survival E A I X maxwell@ | of randomly varying replicators.'' D T N 6 ScottMaxwell.org | -- Richard Dawkins
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