- From: Chase Tingley <tingley@sundell.net>
- Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2001 17:02:50 -0400 (EDT)
- To: <www-patentpolicy-comment@w3.org>
To whom it may concern, As an occasional contributor to the Mozilla browser project, a dabbler in Resource Document Framework (RDF) technologies, an open-source developer and a lover of the web in general, I am deeply disappointed by the apparent collapse of the founding philosophies of the W3C, as evidenced by the attempted legitimization of fee-based patents in the standards-making process in the form of the RAND proposal. Citing RAND as a solution to contention over technologies such as SVG and XPointer is merely a smokescreen -- the equivalent of the W3C cutting off its own head in order to clear its throat. At this point in the discussion (and since I am required to compose this note on extremely short notice, due to the underpublicized nature of this call for comment), I have little more to add. However, I would like to call further attention to and express my support for arguments already made in a number of other messages to www-patentpolicy-comment. In particular: Robert O'Callahan http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-patentpolicy-comment/2001Sep/0460.html Peter Kelly http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-patentpolicy-comment/2001Sep/0342.html Alan Cox http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-patentpolicy-comment/2001Sep/0131.html Thanks, ct
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