- From: Laurent Klinger <laurent.klinger@epfl.ch>
- Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2001 08:10:07 +0200
- To: www-patentpolicy-comment@w3.org
I have just learned about the proposed patent policy. I think that W3C's should enable and favor free and open web standards, as was the case until now. The proposed policy (RAND) opens the door and gives legitimacy to non-free standards for the web, to the advantage of (big) software companies and to the disadvantage of the free software community and their users. Taking into account the utterly questionable use of software patents by software companies (which patent trivial ideas, ideas that were previously well known in a slightly different context or ideas that heavily rely on previous un-patented and publicly known works), I think opening the ``RAND door '' should be avoided and the proposed policy abandoned. laurent klinger
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