- From: Pål Wester <pal.wester@never.no>
- Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2001 13:12:22 +0200
- To: <www-patentpolicy-comment@w3.org>
Like including a fee on everybody who cuts their paper in 297x210mm. (DIN A4 papersize (476)) also made international by iso 216, but DIN is the original source. Even if the fee was RAND, they could make billions on it as all of europe uses that as a standard document size. Now, who can they claim licence fees from? Why not every firm who sells paper in those formats and of cource the who produce machines who use them - like printers.... To change from A4 to something else would be hard... It's like someone stepping forward with the generic patent on footwear. Would you stoped wearing shoes? I think I make my own standard under GPL and use that from now on. (and as I thought of it, I stopped using HTML in mail) mvh: Pål Wester programmer
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