- From: Jeff Waller <jeffw@141monkeys.org>
- Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2001 14:36:06 -0400
- To: www-patentpolicy-comment@w3.org
Your introductory material states that as new industries come in contact with the internet, differing business practices, in particular traditions regarding patents, will likely be translated to the internet as well and that the W3C must develop a policy towards these patent issues. I agree that there must be a policy which can be stated easily enough: No recommendation may be made by the W3C for which there exists an essential claim. This avoids embroiling the W3C in drawn out legal and procedural battles concerning what constitutes "resonable," conflicting patents, etc, but mostly keeps standards free of the taint of corporate manipulation as they rightly should be. For after all, the internet's great contribution to mankind is free access to information and refusing to recommend anything that could conceivably be restricted or controlled by a sole entity (patent claimant) underscores this. -Jeff Waller
Received on Sunday, 30 September 2001 14:41:12 UTC