- From: Perttu Puska <ppuska@csc.fi>
- Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2001 13:52:55 +0300 (EET DST)
- To: www-patentpolicy-comment@w3.org
World Wide Web Consortium Patent Policy Working Group Dear W3C Patent Policy Working Group, I'm extremely concerned about the recent Patent Policy Framework draft, which could allow W3C members to charge royalty fees for technologies included in web standards. In particular, I object to the inclusion of a "reasonable and non-discriminatory" (RAND) licensing option in the proposed policy. I believe that the exclusive use of a "royalty-free" (RF) licensing model is in the best interests of the Internet community, and that RAND licensing would always necessarily exclude some would-be implementors. I applaud the W3C for its tradition of providing open-source reference implementations and its work to promote a wide variety of interoperable implementations of its open standards. This laudable tradition can be best continued by saying no to RAND licensing. Ystävällisin terveisin, Perttu P. Puska Post-Doctoral Research Fellow Electromagnetics Laboratory Helsinki University of Technology Perttu.Puska@hut.fi
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