- From: Matthias Urlichs <smurf@noris.de>
- Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2001 05:34:10 +0200
- To: www-patentpolicy-comment@w3.org
There does not exist any "reasonable and nondiscriminatory license fee" with respect to work which is released under an Open Source license, unless that fee is ZERO. This includes availability of documentation. Any RAND 'license' which does not allow for free software development does not deserve this name and is in fact a smokescreen for monopolizing some aspect of the Internet. Sorry, but we DO NOT need any more of those. NB: ISO experience has shown that a closed standards development process just doesn't work. Example: The large number of mutually-semi-incompatible versions of X.25 (Layer Two), 'standardized' in various ISO/CCITT recommendations. (There are at least five.) -- Matthias Urlichs
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