- From: Yoann Vandoorselaere <yoann@mandrakesoft.com>
- Date: 01 Oct 2001 09:46:23 +0200
- To: www-patentpolicy-comment@w3.org
- Cc: Alex Simons <alexsi@microsoft.com>
"Alex Simons" <alexsi@microsoft.com> wrote: > A short note to express my strong support for the RAND patent changes > proposed. > > Patents are a critical part of our Intellectual Property system and a > key underpinning of our capitalist economy. And W3C is about *World Wide* web consortium. World Wide mean that your economy isn't the only one existing in this world. > Remove patents and you remove the incentives for people to > invent/create new IP. Why create > new IP when you have to risk it as > part of the W3C procedures? Users want interoperability between product. By allowing RAND type license, you kill the ability of individual and small company to embrace a given standard. How many people wouldn't have been able to pay a license fee to implement a standard. Think about the concequence it would have on interoperability between differents systems. From the W3C goal section, I can read : 1. Universal Access: To make the Web accessible to all by promoting technologies that take into account the vast differences in culture, education, ability, material resources, and physical limitations of users on all continents; 2. Semantic Web : To develop a software environment that permits each user to make the best use of the resources available on the Web; 3. Web of Trust : To guide the Web's development with careful consideration for the novel legal, commercial, and social issues raised by this technology. From my point of view, allowing fee-based standards is completly against all of this and will simply allow big company to kill theses goal. > Instead, the W3C should uphold, protect and encourage patents as they > create and support true innovation by providing tremendous positive > economic incentives. This kind of license would only encourage monopoly... Something you seem to know well. -- Yoann Vandoorselaere http://prelude.sourceforge.net
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