- From: Luca Saiu <positrone@freemail.it>
- Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2001 17:07:28 +0200 (CEST)
- To: www-patentpolicy-comment@w3.org
In my opinion there's very little to add to what Eben Moglen wrote in http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-patentpolicy-comment/2001Sep/0650.html I think it's just a simple matter, I could say it's based even of the nature of a 'Standard'. The purpose and meaning of any standard should be to ease making different implementations agree on compatibility-related issues, so that different products made by different developers can agree; and Standards _must_ be open and royality-free, to allow free software authors to support them. Standards ease compatibility, but patents do limit the possibility to support standards. It's a strong contraddiction. A questions arises very clear, I think it's lecit. Whose interests is defending this purpose? Standards should serve the public, and not any particular large companies which needs the freedom to be compatible taken away from its free software competitors. -- Luca Saiu, Italy
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