- From: Seth Nickell <snickell@stanford.edu>
- Date: 30 Sep 2001 01:02:30 -0700
- To: www-patentpolicy-comment@w3.org
To whom it may concern, After browsing the comments currently posted to this repository, and particularly noting the dates of posting, it seems clear to me that this issue has not been adequately publicised given its relatively radical effects on the W3C as we know it. I realize that a couple months have already been allocated for public commentary, and that the majority of comments coming in now the comittee would probably rather not have (because to a large extent they are against the entire proposal)... But at this point I think it would be intellectually & socially dishonest to close the comment period. A large & fairly diverse source of public commentary has been tapped (prior to which almost no commentary was received), so unless the comittee wishes to find an excuse to cut unwanted commentary off at the knees, I think it would only be right to extend the comment period until the public has had its say (and perhaps to try and publicize the issue even further and to more diverse audiences, particularly the vast body of IT consumers). It seems clear to me that a lot can be said about this issue on both sides that hasn't been said, so please give the discussion time to run its course. sincerely, Seth A. Nickell
Received on Sunday, 30 September 2001 04:02:34 UTC