- From: Jochem Kossen <j.kossen@home.nl>
- Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2001 12:04:23 +0200
- To: www-patentpolicy-comment@w3.org
If the W3C allows dealing with patents on standards, what will be the reason to exist for the W3C? It's W3C's job to make sure everyone gets a chance to use a technology which is standards-compliant and to make sure which standards will be standards. With patents, and the licenses that will come with that, many people won't be able to create and use standards-compliant software. What does this mean for the W3C? It will mean that their reasons for existence will become invalid. Even more, it would be better to live without the W3C because they are limiting possibilities to use standards. Besides of that, will a standard which is patented be a standard? In my opinion a standard can only be a standard if it's possible for everyone to use it. Makes me wonder what had happened to the web if html was patented...
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