No from Jeffrey Foran on 2001-10-04 (www-patentpolicy-comment@w3.org from October 2001)

From: Jeffrey Foran <d972@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2001 08:31:26 -0700 (PDT)
To: www-patentpolicy-comment@w3.org
Message-ID: <20011004153126.7962.qmail@web14602.mail.yahoo.com>

Unless the technology can be guaranteed for free use by any
not for proit organization, application, or individual,
patented technology should not be used in any standars lest
you wish to lower the quality and validity your standards
organization has so long worked for.

Jeff Foran
[Edited per http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Team/team-archive-editor/2003May/0003.html]
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