Objections to RAND provision of the Patent Policy Framework

Others have outlined many reasons why the RAND provision of this 
document should be removed and have done so more eloquently than I am 
able. I do wish to voice my own dissent on the adoption of this 
recommendation as it stands. As an individual I can see a future after 
the adoption of this proposal as it stands where I will no longer be 
able to afford to produce my own web documents. I see a future with most 
people like myself being forced off the web and its breadth of content 
destroyed. I urge you to kill this framework as it stands and remove the 
RAND provisions. I thank the W3C for its work thus far and hope that I 
shall be able to do so in the future.

Sincerely,
Mark A. DuPrey

Received on Sunday, 30 September 2001 11:38:41 UTC