- From: John White <john__white@hotmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2001 23:51:58 -0400
- To: <www-patentpolicy-comment@w3.org>
Dear W3C Patent Working Group, I see the w3 as an organisation that help make the Web accessible to everyone and to allow everybody to use whichever tool he wants on any operating system to access it. However, the inclusion of a "reasonable and non-discriminatory" (RAND) licensing option in the proposed policy could fragment the Web as we know it. It is already very difficult to write Web content that is viewable in the miriad of Web browser out there (Opera, Mozilla, Netscape Navigator, Internet Explorer, ...) that I can't imagine the day when I will have to write to many different, incompatible standards because they contain patents and that they are only use by a minority of User Agent that can pay for it (For exemple, Mozilla will never be able to use patented technologie, but Netscape Navigator or Internet Explorer could, so I would have to write some content FOR Mozilla and some other for Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator, which, in my opinion, is not acceptable). Internet Consultant John White john__white@hotmail.com
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