- 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
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