- From: Douglas Brebner <flame@fang.demon.co.uk>
- Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2001 01:08:24 +0100
- To: www-patentpolicy-comment@w3.org
What this sounds like is an attempt to allow standards based on patents to become widespread, at which point the licencing cost will go up sharply forcing people to choose between paying exorbitant fees or spend massive amounts replacing infrastructre. I find the short review time and stealthy approach of this issue to be very suspicious too. Putting patents in a standard, especially a standard used by Open Source is a very bad idea. -- Douglas
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