- From: Anne E. Jablinske <ajablins@northlink.com>
- Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2001 01:57:59 -0700
- To: www-patentpolicy-comment@w3.org
World Wide Web Consortium Patent Policy Working Group Dear W3C Patent Policy Working Group: I believe that public standards for communications technology should remain open and usable by everyone. The "Royalty-Free" (RF) licensing tradition is worth defending, and best serves W3C's mission of developing the "full potential" of the web as an open medium. Many open source developers would find that even the most "reasonable" licensing terms of the proposed "Reasonable and Non-Discriminatory" (RAND) licenses to be a significant barrier. Please support RF rather than RAND licensing for communications technology public standards. Anne E. Jablinske Open Source Advocate ajablins@northlink.com
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