- From: Kevin A. Burton <burton@relativity.yi.org>
- Date: 30 Sep 2001 14:26:30 -0700
- To: www-patentpolicy-comment@w3.org
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I am writing you today to encourage you to stop your efforts to adopt patented technology for W3C endeavors. For starters I do not think it is good to encourage patenting technology with the obvious real world advantages that the W3C intends them for. I think it is important to stand up and say NO. Taking a stand is important here because we often see the US and other patent offices allowing technologies which are obvious and have clear prior art. There is another issue which involves what happens to technologies which are even reasonably licensed. MP3 and GIF come to mind. So please don't allow patents within W3C technologies. Kevin - -- Kevin A. Burton ( burton@apache.org, burton@openprivacy.org, burtonator@acm.org ) Cell: 415-595-9965 URL: http://relativity.yi.org ICQ: 73488596 I would rather live with a certain amount of private terrorism than with government totalitarianism. -- Harvey Silvergate -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Get my public key at: http://relativity.yi.org/pgpkey.txt iD8DBQE7t427AwM6xb2dfE0RApk0AKCUqHAwPKJnTGWeZhgti9yJd5lspgCgk035 uxdunKDIH825/cK+Gx7NcTQ= =KJ4Q -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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