- From: Manos Batsis <m.batsis@bsnet.gr>
- Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2001 12:37:55 +0300
- To: <www-patentpolicy-comment@w3.org>
Dear Patent Policy Working Group, I am sure you have enough work to do so I will just take the opportunity to speak up while being extremely short. Hopefully, I will manage to make a point. What I personally dislike about "such" a policy, is the ground it offers to open source developers and academic researchers, hobbyists etc. Right now, a very large number of research and development takes place on internet standards and this is an amount of work no standards body could ever handle. The reason this amount of development takes place is that, the standards all this research bases itself on are open, non-proprietary and free. If a rand policy is to be applied on W3C technologies, these efforts will stop using the W3C standards (actually, the efforts themselves will stop for quite some time, until someone else gives researchers an adequate ground to work upon). For once more, real evolution will stumble upon the entities we, humans, created to serve us but ended up serving instead. W3C has been one of the most noble achievements of human kind to date. Most things around the word "evolution" have (for a couple of centuries) included the word "cost" and "profit". I think real human evolution is one that freely passes it's fruits to the human kind as a whole, without getting concepts like money involved. I can only hope that W3C will keep being an example of real human evolution. It has been one of the few and without them, I find no intelligence to the human kind. Thanks for listening. Kindest regards, Manos Batsis
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