- From: Alan Mitchell Durham <alan@ime.usp.br>
- Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2001 10:56:46 -0300
- To: www-patentpolicy-comment@w3.org
Hello, I am very concerned about the decision of W3C os possibly adopting patented tecnology as standards for the web. Agreeing with many other researchers, this is a big risk for free software, which in recent year has been shaping a new future in the area com technology. Also, making patented technology a standard will turn W3C's decisions much more politically oriented. We cannot subestimate the power that a company that owns the patent of a standard has on the software market. As things are, we are having enough problems with Microsoft's near monopoly of many areas. That comes from the "informal" standards that they has build with extremelly smart business strategies. Any standard decision will have extremelly important economic impact and the pressure of the big corporations to implement their standars will be enourmous, putting aside the technical reasoning. I strongly oppose that initiative. Prof. Alan Durham University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
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