Web standards should be free!

Possible future scenario:
 
W3C releases XHTML 2.0 with the RAND licensing mode. The Open Source community reacts by 
creating a new organization and develops a royalty-free version (OpenXHTML or something). 

And we are back to square one, without a healthy web standard that makes life easier for web 
developers. W3C lose their place as a respected web standard organization and no one gets 
happier. 

Follow the ideals of Tim Berners-Lee: web standards should be free for everyone!

Jonas Persson
Web Developer, Sweden

Received on Thursday, 4 October 2001 04:59:37 UTC