- From: Aaron Sherman <ajs@ajs.com>
- Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2001 12:03:26 -0400
- To: www-patentpolicy-comment@w3.org
As an individual who is actively generating specifications for upcoming standards track efforts (pps.sourceforge.net), I'm very concerned about RAND licensing and it's impact on my work. If the playing field is level, and W3C and IETF standards are free for all of use to implement, then I don't much care if *my* proposal beats my competitors, as long as the best proposal wins. On the other hand, if I (as a free software developer) am not free to implement the winning proposals, then the only tolerable solution for me is that my (possibly inferior) solution win. Applying this sort of bias toward licensing over quality should not be part of the W3C's mission, activities or recommendations. Please reject RAND licensing to preserve the atmosphere of cooperative development that fostered the creation of the Internet and of the World Wide Web. Thank you for your time. -- Aaron Sherman ajs@ajs.com finger ajskey@b5.ajs.com for GPG info. Fingerprint: www.ajs.com/~ajs 6DC1 F67A B9FB 2FBA D04C 619E FC35 5713 2676 CEAF "Write your letters in the sand for the day I'll take your hand In the land that our grandchildren knew." -Queen/_'39_
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