- From: Chris <linuxman@psu.edu>
- Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2001 18:30:03 -0400
- To: www-patentpolicy-comment@w3.org
Any standard which is covered by a software patent will be unable to be implemented in open software (such as Mozilla or Konqueror) and thus will cease to be a standard. Open standards and Open Source software are the future of this industry. Software patents only slow progress and they themselves need to be eliminated. If patents are allowed to cover W3 standards, the Open Source community, which is far larger than the W3 and all commercial software companies combined, will no doubt disregard the W3 as a legitimate standards body and perhaps create their own organization for this purpose. The only organization to gain from patents in web standards would be Microsoft, which would undoubtably like to make Internet Explorer the only web browser on earth. We will not stand for this. The obvious answer to web patents is NO. Please do not disappoint us. LinuxMan@psu.edu
Received on Sunday, 30 September 2001 21:35:09 UTC