- From: David Boring <buyer@twilight-systems.com>
- Date: 01 Oct 2001 07:29:25 -0400
- To: www-patentpolicy-comment@w3.org
> Instead, the W3C should uphold, protect and encourage patents > as they create and support true innovation by providing > tremendous positive economic incentives. A [F/f]ree, open, standards-based web should be one of the GROUND-RULES by which businesses compete. If a business cannot compete without compromising this principle, we don't want its "innovations", much less as part of the standard. Furthermore, one can consider significant elements of the Internet in the civic realm, not the business realm. Just as it should be possible for citizens to assemble physically freely and openly and without charge, they should be able to do so electronically as well. Any "standard" that requires royalty payments to implement or use compromises their ability to do so. I'm sure there are "tremendous economic incentives" to controlling key Internet standards, and having a headlock on anyone who uses them by way of royalty fees and licensing terms. Frankly, I don't want incentives like that to EVER see the light of day.
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