- From: Christopher Ramey <cramey@binarythought.com>
- Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2001 13:37:56 -0800
- To: www-patentpolicy-comment@w3.org
W3C has always been the standards body for the web. Allowing external, patented, and closed-source technologies into the loop opens the door for corruption among it's members. I know none of the people on the board. I can't testify for or against their character. But this is a dangerous move. Suddenly, you can all be bought. Imagine if ActiveX suddenly becomes a recommendation that everyone's suppose to have, but only people with a certain operating enviroment can adopt. -Market Leverage- Maybe I want my technology adopted by the W3C so I can force people into my licensing terms. Soon enough, I can put the "Approved by W3C" sticker on all of my products. Don't have my software and can't view my web site? Too bad, I -am- using the standard you know. As of my posting of this comment, there were 501 posts on the topic. Casually browsing, I couldn't find more then a handful that wasn't against the new policy. Please keep this in mind when the decisions are made. I'd hate to think a policy like this wasn't for the good of the community.
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