- From: Simon White <simonwhite@simonwhite.com>
- Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2001 16:41:51 -0700
- To: www-patentpolicy-comment@w3.org
I've been a Web developer since 1994. Since that time I have promoted the W3C's open standards to clients, students, and in articles and books that I have written on Web development. I have continued to do this even though it has became unfashionable in some circles, in favor of basically just authoring for MSN and AOL. Now, I feel betrayed by the new W3C patent policy. With Microsoft in court all the time over their illegal monopolistic business practices, with their low-quality software making viruses into a significant percentage of Web traffic and destroying routers and even threatening to bring the Web down, when it is clear that they want to absorb the World Wide Web into MSN ... well, hearing this from the W3C now is like being kicked when you're down. Tariffs on interoperability are not going to promote interoperability. Simon White ______________________________________________________ http://www.simonwhite.com
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