- From: Kent Engström <kent@unit.liu.se>
- Date: 03 Oct 2001 00:01:24 +0200
- To: www-patentpolicy-comment@w3.org
W3C WG members, please think very carefully before stepping in the direction of encouraging standards requring royalty payments of any kind. While that may not be a problem for big companies, or even medium-sized ones, it may be a huge problem for open source projects. In my daily work as an incident handler and security specialist, I rely heavily on open-source software, not only for my own work environment. Quite frankly, I fear a world where Apache is no longer conveniently available to replace IIS with, for example. Should W3C start to encourage patent-encumbered web standards, we might end up in a situation like that. Regards, -- Kent Engström, Linköping University Incident Response Team kent@unit.liu.se abuse@liu.se +46 13 28 1744 UNIT, Linköping University; SE-581 83 LINKÖPING; SWEDEN
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