- From: David Clifton <exopiped@yahoo.com>
- Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2001 13:46:15 -0700 (PDT)
- To: www-patentpolicy-comment@w3.org
Patenting standards is a lousy idea. The web is a public communications medium. As such, it provides a forum in which every person can publish his/her views and communicate with like minded people world-wide. Patenting vital standards allows the patent holders to raise the price of using the web, until it is beyond the reach of most people who would otherwise like to publish there. This is precisely what the corporations behind this proposal want. Keep normal people from publishing their thoughts and comments. Allow only corporate propaganda. It is up to you to keep the underlying standards of the internet beyond the reach of corporate and government power brokers! David Clifton ===== Boycott Microsoft ... Use Open-Source and Free Software ------------------------------------------------------- David Clifton Exopiped Inc david@exopiped.com www.exopiped.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Listen to your Yahoo! Mail messages from any phone. http://phone.yahoo.com
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