- From: gavin <gav@gav.com.au>
- Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2001 19:39:41 -0400
- To: www-patentpolicy-comment@w3.org
Hi, I am part of the free software community and I realise that you have a lot of submissions to go through, but I would also like to briefly voice my opposition to the proposed W3C RAND policy. My reasons are as follows: The proposed policy is against the W3C charter as published on the W3C web site. It discriminates against the free software community. A standard is something that everyone should adhere to and should be patent free. Organisations should be able to extend the standard with their own patented technology. Patented technology as a standard encourages corruption within a standards body and bias towards particular patent holders. To prevent any form of this occuring it should be mandatory that any standard be patent and royalty free. Regards Gavin Melhuish Software Engineer Sydney Australia
Received on Wednesday, 3 October 2001 05:38:46 UTC