- From: Beretta Paolo <Paolo.Beretta@italtel.it>
- Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2001 10:02:22 +0200
- To: www-patentpolicy-comment@w3.org
Hi. I took a fast look at the RFC and a point looked very amusing to me: on the Overview section, the RFC states: "our goal is to affirm the Web community's longstanding preference for Recommendations that can be implemented on a royalty-free (RF) basis" Hehehe, very funny indeed... Did anyone remember what happened about GIF and LZH compression ? And, to the W3C, did you know how many people cares about GIF royalties ? Go on with your RFC and: 1) Noone in the world will ever follow it 2) Noone in the world will ever listen to YOU anymore. Rules should be realistic and widely accepted, otherwise are only a bit of ink on a scratch of paper (or, in this case, garbage data on a memory support). You may say what you want. If what you say will have any meaning, well... it depends on what you'll say. By my point of view, I won't accept nor respect any RAND on something that is born as a open network and that will remain open and free, whatever you say. Think well about it. Have a good day -- ***************************************************************** * Beretta Paolo * * * * * * Office * * * Phone: +39-2-4388-7927 * * * Fax: +39-2-4388-8517 * * ***************************************************************** * EMail: paolo.beretta@italtel.it * * beretta@ic7d11.settimo.italtel.it * *****************************************************************
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