- From: Mats Palmgren <Mats.Palmgren@mailbox.swipnet.se>
- Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2001 02:36:16 +0200
- To: www-patentpolicy-comment@w3.org
The RAND license contradicts your own goals as set forth in
http://www.w3.org/Consortium/#goals
"W3C's long term goals for the Web are:
1) Universal Access: To make the Web accessible to all by
promoting technologies
that take into account the vast differences in culture,
education, ability, material resources,
and physical limitations of users on all continents;
2) Semantic Web : To develop a software environment that permits
each user to make the
best use of the resources available on the Web;
3) Web of Trust : To guide the Web's development with careful
consideration for the
novel legal, commercial, and social issues raised by this
technology."
So unless the W3C wants to become a hypocrisy and a joke, either this
proposal has to go,
or the original goals have to go. I'd hate to see the goals change. W3C
has provided an amazing
service to the web community, and if its goals change, I'm afraid that
service would cease to exist.
/Mats
Received on Sunday, 30 September 2001 20:36:47 UTC