- From: Yong Chi <ychi@localhost.localdomain>
- Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2001 05:40:04 -0400
- To: www-patentpolicy-comment@w3.org
Dear who it may concern, RAND is extremely bad idea. It is easy to start squeezing general public for money during tough times. However, in long run, it will severely harm the W3C industry. It would be like oil companies raising prices high enough to cause a recession. This is a well known fact that if you raise the cost of bussiness, it will stun the growth the industry. In order for oil companies to sell healthy volumes of oil, they try _hard_ to keep the oil price at econmic scale. Having high oil price is bad for everyone, including the oil companies If W3C industry wants to success in market place, it also must achieve scales of economy. Let the supply and demand establish the price. DO NOT try to "regulate" the revenue by collecting royalty. In the end, it will hurt everyone. sincerely, Yong Chi
Received on Sunday, 30 September 2001 09:41:08 UTC