- From: Adrian Harte <hartea@hotmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2001 01:06:40 +0000
- To: www-patentpolicy-comment@w3.org
Dear Sir... I just read your paper on the W3C Patent Policy Framework. I would like to say that I am strongly against this policy because of the damage which I feel it would do to future Internet standards. By giving the ability to any company to patent any core technology, it immediately gives them the power to control, if only by a cost basis, the amount of competition in that space. Indeed, many standards bodies in other spaces (JEDEC, in the memory world) insist that their members disclose any and all patents in advance of the discussions about any technologies (this is something which I would support the W3C doing!), purely so that they may avoid technologies which may give any individual member an edge. Surely this example can show what a danger it is to allow a key technology in a standard to become patentable. I hope and believe that the W3C will avoid making this mistake, and will instead ensure that Internet standards will remain patent-free, so that even the smallest developer may be able to innovate in this area. Yours sincerely Adrian Harte _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp
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