- From: Jean-Pierre Demailly <Jean-Pierre.Demailly@ujf-grenoble.fr>
- Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2001 16:09:45 +0200 (MEST)
- To: www-patentpolicy-comment@w3.org
- Cc: Jean-Pierre.Demailly@ujf-grenoble.fr (Jean-Pierre Demailly)
I just got the information about the new licensing scheme "RAND" from LinuxToday news. In case the information would be accurate, I want to stress that such a licensing scheme would be a terrible threat to scientists trying to promote open standards and open technology. It would be a major step back to the infamous domination of monopolistic societies on information control. Therefore a major threat to the rights of technically concerned individuals to keep a control over the technology being used at a worldwide level, and more generally to the development of science itself. I cannot express anything else than my absolute disapproval and disgust that such a thing could even be considered. Hope that W3C is not yet bought by these awful big companies that are going (without even seeing or thinking) against the most elementary rights of human beings... In case it would be, I don't know what the next decades will bring to humankind, but one can expect major disasters similar to what occurred recently in New York. Shame to scientists if they don't oppose in the strongest way against such crazy ideas ! Jean-Pierre Demailly University of Grenoble I Mathematician (working in Algebraic Geometry and Computer Science) Member of French Académie des Sciences
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