- From: David O'Brien <obrien@NUXI.com>
- Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2001 16:00:52 -0700
- To: www-patentpolicy-comment@w3.org
Network standards do not work when there are royalty issues sounding them. In fact such "standards" are not really standards in the culture and history of the Internet. Imagine if all the various RFC's had royalties associated with their usage. The Internet would have been still-born. To change to allow such things now, would turn the keys of the public Internet over to often immoral large corporations. Unfortuneatly W3C controlled standards have become all that is the Internet in the majority of users's minds. Many have never heard of or used Telnet, ping, etc. and do not realize they use FTP at times (since most browsers make using this protocol over HTTP transparent). Please keep the Internet free as its founding fathers did. -- -- David (obrien@NUXI.com)
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