- From: Mikko Rauhala <mjr@iki.fi>
- Date: 01 Oct 2001 01:01:33 +0300
- To: www-patentpolicy-comment@w3.org
- Message-Id: <1001887294.2377.16.camel@vision>
Seems to me that to go through with this policy change would be a step back to the bad old days of limited interoperability between systems and software. Especially it would be a very effective blow to free software, limiting the full potential of the W3C sanctioned standards to proprietary software users. This would necessarily alienate free software people and probably cause competing, truly open standards to form - _hopefully_, if not probably, making the competing, proprietary W3C standards obsolete before they do much damage. (The GIF issue sadly hasn't been too encouraging on this point...) I shan't make a more elaborate argument against it to get this sent in time, but I felt I had to voice my objection; in any case, a quick look in the archives showed that many more people have already spoken what I'd have to say in more detail, so the arguments have been presented. -- Mikko Rauhala - mjr@iki.fi - <URL:http://www.iki.fi/mjr/>
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