- From: Chessy <chessy@euskalnet.net>
- Date: 30 Sep 2001 21:35:49 +0200
- To: www-patentpolicy-comment@w3.org
Dear W3C: I have just read in LinuxToday and Barrapunto (two great Open Source weblogs) an article about your new RAND license terms, and as many people around technology world I am sad. I can't understand why this philosophical turn. The open source community has always supported W3C's web standards and has always worked very hard to implement and improve such standards. Now, this community is very worried about W3C's new RAND license terms, and of course, is not agree. To make web standards license fees is similar to kill all open source and free software intiatives and working efforts regarding the web, and is similar to give all the power and facilities to closed source companies. I would like to finish this brief letter asking you to drop RAND proposal, and in the process, remember that this movement will help to the open source community. The community that has always been in your side. Juanan Pereira Varela chessy@diariolinux.com
Received on Sunday, 30 September 2001 15:34:40 UTC