- From: Vicente A.S. Werner <thewind@thewindrider.net>
- Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2001 12:01:52 +0200
- To: <www-patentpolicy-comment@w3.org>
That's what I feel about RAND on it's current terms, a good hit to the baseline of the open & free nature that has delivered the WWW tecnology to it's current state. While it could be good to introduce some standards slightly patent encumbered (even I think that souldn't be accepted easily, and only when there's no patent free alternative on sight), W3C shouldn't be allowed to endorse any standard that has a potential menace on it (patents not declared free to use for the development, deployment and use of the sanctioned standard). This is a scaring posibility allowed by current RAND terms exposed by the W3C. Vicente A. Sánchez Werner thewind@thewindrider.net
Received on Sunday, 30 September 2001 05:56:28 UTC