- From: Shawn Balestracci <inquiz@yahoo.com>
- Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2001 15:25:28 -0700 (PDT)
- To: www-patentpolicy-comment@w3.org
The WWW is only a success today because of the free and open standards that have been in place so far. The introduction of fees for standard practices stifles those that would make software for free, or those who cannot afford to pay royalties. Students wouldn't be able to make alternatives for their projects, and people would be denied their right to choose what software they want to use. W3 has done a good job of maintaining and creating standards which have been a great boon so far, and I commend you on what you have done so far. Adopting a standard that is restrictive gives an unfair advantage to the few at the expense of the majority. Please do not recommend the RAND proposal or vote in favor of it. If a standard isn't open, then it will create a competing open standard which will only fragment the WWW and undo the hard work the W3 has done. Thank you for you time, Shawn Balestracci Onalaska, WI 54650 __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Listen to your Yahoo! Mail messages from any phone. http://phone.yahoo.com
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