Just say "no" to patents.

Hello??

In the history of the web, patents have repeatedly come up as a problema.
Incorporating them into web "standards" will not make these problems go
away; quite the opposite.  This change is incredibly wrong-headed and
should be rejected out of hand.

And what is with this short notice and comment period?  Sounds fishy to me.

If this passes, so does the revelance of the W3C.  It will be replaced by
another body that will fill the need for FREE (in both senses of the word)
and OPEN web standards.

-- 
#!/usr/bin/perl -i4lfirm{8+:2cqsynlz:5%@0:3Siwr:1Kwvx
print 'Eric E. Coe, JAPH (and Oracle Principle Engineer)
Work:  914.773.8017   Eric.Coe@oracle.com AIM: "Eric Coe US"
Home:  973.663.0840 Cell: 973.945.8957 ecoe@reportica.org
BTW, the meaning of JAPH is:',"\n@{[map{($i,@a)=unpack
'ac*',$_;pack'c*',map{$_-$i++}@a}sort split/:/,$^I]}\n"
__END__
As always, the opinions expressed are solely my own,
and not my employer's (though they should be!)