- From: Slater, Christopher M <slaterc@post.uwstout.edu>
- Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2001 19:09:19 -0500
- To: "'www-patentpolicy-comment@w3.org'" <www-patentpolicy-comment@w3.org>
If I may make my statement: It is important to accept that the web be placed onto open standards, and to also realize that anything on the web should be more public domain than to have a web that is solely for *profit*. While IP is fine in the non-virtual world, it is devistating in the virtual realm. Who is to say that one's way of patents is correct? What about enforcement? Who is to say that the IP will be 100% enforceable? The web is here for collaberation, ideas, and business... it is a *public* *square*; not a shopping mall! Who said that the web should be a place for the sponsors of this proposal? It is absurd! These companies would much rather see money in their wallets over the overall expansion and fluent movement of ideas that would benifit (and be profitable) for all. We cannot consider x amount of business intrests; rather, we need to understand that we must consider everyone's ideas and pricipals. The constorium is more for the proprietary junk than the public domain in my humble opinion and would rather see a quash of open source systems that would benifit the whole world. The "digital divide" as decribed in the United States can be brought closer together if we allow for the open source systems to flow through. Quashing these systems would just cause more division, and cause the movement of ideas and alternatives to become a standstill; always worried about weither or not we will be faced with a civil and/or criminal lawsuit. Sincerely, Christopher Slater
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