- From: Nelson Frolund <n.frolund@qmi.asn.au>
- Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2001 18:02:05 +1000
- To: www-patentpolicy-comment@w3.org
Please reject the use of patents as basis of any W3C standard From http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/FAQ.html: > Q: Is it true that you have had mixed emotions about, > if I may, not cashing in on the Web? > > Not really. It was simply that had the technology been > proprietary, and in my total control, it would probably > not have taken off. The decision to make the Web an open > system was necessary for it to be universal. You can't > propose that something be a universal space and at the > same time keep control of it. -- Nelson Frolund Reality Works Facility Manager -------------------------------------- Queensland Manufacturing Institute Ltd Cnr Miles Platting and Logan Roads PO Box 4012 Eight Mile Plains, QLD, 4113 Australia -------------------------------------- Ph: +61 7 3364-0700 mob: +61 0407-628-494 Fax: +61 7 3364-0786 email: n.frolund@qmi.asn.au http://www.qmi.asn.au
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