- From: Julian Morrison <julian@extropy.demon.co.uk>
- Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2001 22:42:16 +0100
- To: www-patentpolicy-comment@w3.org
- initially "reasonable and non discriminatory" terms may not always stay reasonable. - even seemingly reasonable terms may prevent fully open-source or free (libre or gratuit) implementations, this could effectively lock users into poor implementations of the standard, and lock out a significant proportion of users. - the patent will retard (or co-opt) new ideas and developments extending or interacting with the patented standard. - the patent will allow the patent-holder to release subsequent enhanced versions of the standard under very non-"RAND" terms, and block anyone else from providing alternatives. Users would then be given the unwelcome choice: strand yourself in a dated standard, or aquiesce to the new terms.
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