- From: Duncan Bayne <dhgbayne@fastmail.fm>
- Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2013 22:18:24 -0700
- To: public-restrictedmedia@w3.org
> Let's hope you don't find them... Honestly, I'm really pesimist after > this news has surfaced :-( There's a good discussion on Hacker News about it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6491144 It turns out that the W3C has been behaving like this for a long time: ===== The W3C hasn't been a good "guardian" of HTML for a very long time. This is pretty much why they're not even the only guardian around - there's also WHATWG. For example, 12 years ago W3C attempting to push "RAND" patent licensing into HTML: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-patentpolicy-comment... This was 100% against the concept of a free, open web, and it took a huge effort to stop it happening. It's crazy that it even got that far. So it's no surprise that they're pushing industry interests again today. I lost all confidence in that group safeguarding HTML a long time ago, and it looks like the they haven't changed. ===== -- Duncan Bayne ph: +61 420817082 | web: http://duncan-bayne.github.com/ | skype: duncan_bayne I usually check my mail every 24 - 48 hours. If there's something urgent going on, please send me an SMS or call me at the above number.
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