- From: Kent Rosenkoetter <Kent.Rosenkoetter@unc.edu>
- Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2001 13:27:57 -0500
- To: www-patentpolicy-comment@w3.org
Patents must never be allowed to interfere with open standards. The point of
having open standards, and the point of the W3C, is to allow anyone and everyone
to access the web in a consistent manner, and to allow anyone and everyone to
create tools to access the web, regardless of financial or legal status. As soon
as patents become part of the web standards, patent holders will have the power
to demand royalties of every independent web software author, which will
drastically reduce the available options for everyone on the web and help to
consolidate monopolistic or oligopolistic powers.
May I never see the day I have to pay corporations (which hold almost all
significant patents) merely so I can write my own conforming web browser. I have
plans to do so in the near future. Should this go through my plans will die.
Kent
--
The world before the fall
Delightful is the light of dawn
Noble is the heart of man...
-Cyan Garamonde, Final Fantasy VI
Received on Sunday, 30 September 2001 13:25:51 UTC