- From: Michaela Merz <misch@steyla.com>
- Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2001 09:18:00 -0400
- To: www-patentpolicy-comment@w3.org
Dear W3C Patent Policy Working Group: We do not think, that the recent Patent Policy Framework draft is helpful in regards to the continued development and growth of the Internet. The RAND licensing in the proposed policy will exclude potential developers, especially open source and freeware. I'd like to remind you, that most of the Internet and the web is/was based upon the idea of freely interoperable methods. W3C has supported the community with open-source implementations of its open standards. There is still so much to do and we all still need much development. We believe that W3C should continue its work the way it has served the community over the last years so well, thus saying NO to RAND. Sincerely, Michaela Merz CEO Steyla Technologies Corporation Group Founder of germany.net, Germany's first web based OnlineService (1994)
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