- From: Mr Confucious Say <confucious_sitei@yahoo.com>
- Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2001 19:08:01 -0700 (PDT)
- To: www-patentpolicy-comment@w3.org
This policy attacks the very foundation that the internet was built on. How can you patent a protocol or a standard. Its insane! Thats like putting a patent on the way workers pick fruit (just an example). Your indidual software, sure, but the basic outlines of its functionality should not be surrounded by hideous royalty fees and patents. The only reason that companies such as Microsoft are behind this policy is because they care about one thing: the bottom line. Whether or not the vast community that is the internet is destroyed because of this _COMMERCIALISATION_ of its foundation is not a problem for them, so long as they get rich ripping people off for technology that should be free. The internet is a place for the people, leave it alone. If this policy is put in place then the chance of any decent new technology erupting onto the net will dwindle away to nothing. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Listen to your Yahoo! Mail messages from any phone. http://phone.yahoo.com
Received on Monday, 1 October 2001 22:08:03 UTC