- From: Toni Mueller <support@oeko.net>
- Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2001 19:45:49 +0200
- To: www-patentpolicy-comment@w3.org
- Cc: support@oeko.net
Niklas Hallqvist wrote: > If this was a vote, my voice would be *against* RAND. I need not provide > more arguments than already has been presented. It is clearly a very > bad idea. _YES_ I don't know who was stupid enough to invent this (when will we be required to pay royalties to read such "proposals"?), but this appears to be the end of the Internet as we know it, and a confusion of the Internet with a home shopping cable tv on behalf of said "inventors". Instead, the Internet, and especially what the W3C does, should be free for anyone to use, and be based on _standards_, not standards-of-the-day like we have in certain other fields of industry. Well, it's time for an AlterW3C ... --Toni, very disappointed++
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