- From: tom poe <tompoe@amihost.com>
- Date: 16 Sep 2003 22:35:40 -0700
- To: "Richard M. Smith" <rms@computerbytesman.com>
- Cc: W3C Public Web Plugins List <public-web-plugins@w3.org>
This isn't about breaking the web, is it? Big difference, here, I think. Tom On Tue, 2003-09-16 at 19:10, Richard M. Smith wrote: > http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/17/technology/17SOFT.html?pagewanted=prin > t > <http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/17/technology/17SOFT.html?pagewanted=pri > nt&position> &position= > - - -snip- - - > ``The ripple effect of this could be very dramatic,'' said Daniel > Weitzner, director of technology and society activities at the Web > consortium. ``What you have here is the adjudication of a private > lawsuit between two companies, and no one thought about the rest of the > Web.'' - - -snip- - - > The court ruling and its potential impact, according to Mr. Weitzner, > points to the larger issue of the need to keep the basic software of the > Web free of patent royalties. > > The consortium, which includes representatives from the major software > companies and many university researchers, adopted a royalty-free patent > policy in May after three years of debate. ``If you try to charge > individual companies for patents on Web standards, you risk balkanizing > the Web and breaking it,'' Mr. Weitzner said. - - -snip- - -
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