- From: smokedjam <smokedjam@earthlink.net>
- Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2001 20:31:38 -0400
- To: www-patentpolicy-comment@w3.org
If you patent a standard, then it will cost to use this standard. Solutions that cannot meet this cost will find alternatives. Therefore the standard will lose influence. Given the growing importance of free software as a solution in powering the internet, any encumberance of the W3C standards requiring excessive costs will simply cause a new standards body to appear. There will be a resultant split negating much of the advantages of having standards-making organizations in the first place. Thanks for reading!
Received on Sunday, 30 September 2001 20:23:36 UTC