- From: Stefane Fermigier <sf@fermigier.com>
- Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2001 16:51:57 +0200
- To: www-patentpolicy-comment@w3.org
- Cc: Eurolinux <eurolinux@eurolinux.org>, ca-aful@aful.org
On Sun, Sep 30, 2001 at 04:23:48PM +0200, Peter Toft wrote: > I understand that the W3C is discussing whether > patented techniques should be allowed into standards > made by the W3C; > http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2001-09-30-001-20-NW-CY > > As chairman of the Skåne Sjælland Linux User Group with > approximately 6000 members I will strongly ask you to > reject using patents as basis of any W3C standard. The > success of the W3C standards have always been that > anyone could implement compliant software as well as > hardware based products without facing risks of patent > infringement. Accepting patent for standards will > clearly weaken the faith we all have to the W3C. As the President of the French-Speaking Linux and Free Software Users Association (AFUL, http://www.aful.org/), I can only support Peter's reply to your RFC. I was personnally very suprised, and even shocked, when I read the proposed policy, a few days after I read in Tim Berners-Lee's "Weaving the Web": "[patents] are a great stumbling block for Web development." and the discussion hereafter (pp. 213-215). Our position, in french, can be read at: http://aful.org/brevets/ Regards, S. -- Stéfane Fermigier, Tel: +33 (0)6 63 04 12 77 (mobile). http://nuxeo.com/ & http://portalux.com/ & http://aful.org/ "Amazon: we patent the dot in .com"
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