- From: <Mathias.Picker@virtual-earth.de>
- Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2001 09:51:14 +0200 (CEST)
- To: www-patentpolicy-comment@w3.org
One other thing: allowing the choice of royalty-free vs. rand license is contrary to (my) common or business sense. If it is at all possible, every corporation is _required_ to press for a RAND licensed standard. The whole point of business is to generate money, so they will do if you give them the chance. And a rand license would be a license to print money. And that points to the main flaw of the proposal: it's written by business representatives (sorry). That leads to conflicting interests: as standards commitee members they should oppose patents, as business members it's in their best interest to force patents on the w3c. Looks like they try really hard to do that ;) Cheers, Mathias P.S.: If it's not clear from the above: I really think every standard must be implemented only with royalty-free technology. If not, the w3c and the internet will suffer. -- virtual earth Mathias Picker Geschäftsführer Gesellschaft für Wissens re/prä sentation mbH Mathias.Picker@virtual-earth.de Fon +49 89 / 540 7425-1 Fax +49 89 / 540 7425-9
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