- From: Joachim Achtzehnter <joachim@kraut.ca>
- Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2001 11:22:50 -0700 (Pacific Daylight Time)
- To: www-patentpolicy-comment@w3.org
To whom it may concern: This is a public comment about the W3C Patent Policy Framework Working Draft (PPFWD). The PPFWD consists of 3 main components: 1. disclosure requirement 2. royalty-free (RF) licensing mode 3. reasonable and non-discriminatory (RAND) licensing mode In my humble opinion, the W3C makes a grave mistake in endorsing RAND licensing schemes. The World Wide Web is a showcase of the superiority of the free software approach for the benefit of the users of software. The World Wide Web is unthinkable without its free software roots. Permitting W3C standards that are encumbered by patents with licenses that require royalty payments amounts to a stab in the back of the World Wide Web community. I strongly oppose the idea of allowing a RAND mode for W3C standards of any kind. The requirement to disclose all potentially relevant patents at the start of a standardization effort makes sense. Submitting companies must be required to license any patents they may control, that would be infringed by an implementation, on a royalty-free basis. Regards, Joachim Achtzehnter -- work: joachima@netacquire.com (http://www.netacquire.com) private: joachim@kraut.ca (http://www.kraut.ca)
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