- From: Barak Pearlmutter <bap@cs.unm.edu>
- Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2002 13:00:26 -0700
- To: www-patentpolicy-comment@w3.org
It was with great pleasure that I read the "Royalty-Free Patent Policy" Draft of 14-Nov-2002 proposed for W3C standards by the Patent Policy Working Group, http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-patent-policy-20021114/. This is an excellent idea, and would allow free software, tiny startups, and large corporations to compete on an even playing field. Reducing artificial barriers to entry benefits users, programmers, the Internet, and society in general. As a principal on three US patents (5,612,533, 5,920,337, 6,262,760), I support a royalty-free W3C standard patent policy, and look forward to the adoption of the 14-Nov-2002 draft policy by W3C. -- Barak A. Pearlmutter <bap@cs.unm.edu> Prof, Dept of Computer Science, University of New Mexico http://www.cs.unm.edu/~bap/
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