- From: landon dyer <landon@best.com>
- Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2001 08:26:44 -0700
- To: www-patentpolicy-comment@w3.org
i'm quite concerned about the RAND policy, because "reasonable" royalties fly in the face of unreasonable patents i have my name on a couple of software patents. if they were to be found valid, then sun's technique for flattening objects in java would be found to infringe. this is obviously not going to happen somewhere in my files i have a copy of the "network standard byte order" patent. i've met the guy whose name is on the patent. his words: "i can't believe they gave it to me." i'm concerned that W3C endorsement (let's call it what it is) of silly software patents will further stifle innovation. i don't want to pay even one dollar to someone who got a lawyer and bamboozled the patent office into giving him ownership of something that's obvious to someone skilled in the art let's face it: there aren't many software patents out there that are worth anything. i think that de-facto recognition of them will only worsen the problem thanks for listening, -landon dyer sr. software engineer
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