- From: Hilmar Berger <Hilmar.Berger@gmx.de>
- Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2001 23:42:42 +0200 (CEST)
- To: www-patentpolicy-comment@w3.org
Dir Madams and Sirs, I would like to express my concern about the proposed change of the W3C patent policy. I don't see how accepting propietary protocols as recommended standard will solve patent related problems in a manner that benefits the majority of web content creators and users. In contrast I believe that the current draft carries the risk of a web in which a great part of information exchange will only be possible using licensed protocols (How, in your draft, you define 'core Web infrastructure ? TCP/IP ? HTML ? ) Where are the limits of propietary protocols set ? I feel that RAND licensing (if at all) should only be possible for a small number of applications. I don't believe that this fraction should be released as an recommendation of an internet standard. Why would you like to sacrifice the current RF-policy, which benefited the economy and all users so much, in the name of a few trying to own what they couldn't until now ? Where is the prove that the new policy will better fulfill the aims of W3C than the older one ? At last I would like to state that the form of virtual non-publication of this draft until now makes me think that public discussion was the least you wanted. I ask you to reconsider the policy change and continue the RF-practice of standard recommendations and leave RAND-implementations to somebody else. Sincerely, Hilmar Berger
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