Patent royalties for standards ????

Hello,

As a Free Software user, I am deeply concerned about the future of
interoperability if royalty-bearing, patent-encumbered standards are
ever devised. Royalties would in effect forbid the implementation of
the standard as Free Software. 

Therefore, as suggested by the Free Software Foundation
(http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/w3c-patent.html), I urge the W3C to
reconsider its latest patent policy. 

Sincerely,
-- 
Thomas Tempe, 

Systematic preventive privacy-invading personal data recording
is strictly useless at stopping evil anti-american terrorists
without systematic preventive goulag.
http://www.stop1984.org