- From: Yaron M. Minsky <yminsky@cs.cornell.edu>
- Date: 30 Sep 2001 09:06:52 -0400
- To: www-patentpolicy-comment@w3.org
Hi. I'm writing because I am seriously concerned about the w3c's emerging policy with respect to patents. The following analysis: http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2001-09-30-001-20-NW-CY suggests that the w3c may end up creating standards subject to submarine patents, which seems to me to be an enormous danger. As an academic myself, I am particularly concerned about the implications for academic research based on such standards. I am also concerned with limitations on the creation of free software. I believe that the w3c should require their participants to put their cards on the table during the standards-making process. Once that's done, they shouldn't be able to "discover" patents that cover the implementation of the standard that they took part in writing. y -- |--------/ Yaron M. Minsky \--------| |--------\ http://www.cs.cornell.edu/home/yminsky/ /--------| Open PGP --- KeyID 0x91F2C47C Fingerprint: 6838 FF4E 256C BD24 453E 6EEA 0FBE 6CF8 91F2 C47C
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