- From: Kristoffer Ekelund <bke@technuke.net>
- Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2001 23:17:15 +0200
- To: www-patentpolicy-comment@w3.org
I'm totally appalled by reading that you are proposing to change your policies to allow for patented and potentially non-free technology to be endorsed by the W3C. It seems that the browser wars have mostly reached a cease-fire and I for one would hate to see it restarted. Another point I want to bring is that the world wide web has a tradition of being built around free (as in speech) technology, it would be very sad to see that change. Also, bringing patents into what is meant to be open standards is never a good thing, nothing is truly open and free if someone can suddenly decide that they will start charging for it, we don't want the users of the internet to be at the mercy of the wims of greedy corporations. I hope we all remember the whole .gif controversy, and I also hope we all learned from it that the internet infrastructure could be severely hampered by this sort of thing. Sincerely, Kristoffer Ekelund -- Read, think, spread! http://www.toad.com/gnu/whatswrong.html
Received on Sunday, 30 September 2001 17:16:31 UTC