- From: Paul Davis <prtdavis2@yahoo.com>
- Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2001 11:22:18 -0700 (PDT)
- To: www-patentpolicy-comment@w3.org
As the W3C as welcomed comments from developers on the web based technology, I offer mine: As objective as I can be, this move will result in developers leaving the W3C standards for their own or you will convert many hard working people into criminals as the royalty payment will be ignored or unknown to the developer. The web's standard were just comming to a convergence point where the work of developers and software manufacturers is in tandum. Many companies were able to leverage the XML and CSS standards to provide the transfer of knowledge and the presentation of that knowledge in a controlled format. The move to patent and restrict the use of this technology goes in the *exact* opposite direction of the transfer of knowledge. To remind the W3C about it's alleged purpose, from the W3C affilate agreement: "The purposes of the Consortium are to support the advancement of information technology in the field of networking, graphics and user interfaces by evolving the World Wide Web toward a true information infrastructure, and to encourage cooperation in the industry through the promotion and development of standard interfaces in the information environment known as the "World Wide Web." How will *reducing* the number of sites utilizing your technology and force the generation of a competing standard (which WILL happen) further the W3C's stated purpose? How will this impact the poorer facilities, like education, minorities and other disadvantaged groups unable to pay for the RAND? When the .gif standard was patented many developers switched to .jpg and will eventually shift to .png graphics, why does the W3C think developers will not switch to another standard - we are a business looking for OUR least cost solutions after all? Finally, I will keep track of this move and I will *not* be paying any royalties for what I consider public domain standards - which include the CSS, XML, HTML, and Javascript standards. If this makes me a criminal, fine - thousands and thousands of people are with me and when the competing standard comes out, I will use it and encourage the people I come in contact with to use it, my clients and the over 150,000 people who have downloaded my software for web development will also receive notice that I will not support *any* RAND licensing products from the W3C and remove every single referance to the RAND licensing products nor support any customer using them. Thousands of web developers visit my site weekly, I have a voice and it isn't in agreement with the Patent Policy Framework from the W3C. ===== Paul Davis Need custom JavaScript, ASP or Perl script? Kaosweaver can help! Visit our site and contact us. http://www.kaosweaver.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Listen to your Yahoo! Mail messages from any phone. http://phone.yahoo.com
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