- From: Gervase Markham <gerv@mozilla.org>
- Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2001 19:40:25 -0700
- To: www-patentpolicy-comment@w3.org
/This section is normative./ I would like the Working Group to make a statement outlining the effect it expects the proposed policy to have on free and open source software development projects in the following spaces: 1) Browsers and other user agents 2) Web servers 3) Web content creation tools /This section is informative./ A hypothetical situations they might like to consider (among others) is if a common web standard (such as CSS) falls under a patent owned by a W3C Member and available under RAND licensing. Perhaps, to hypothesise further, they could consider the impact if that Member was the only competitor to the open source implementation(s) in that particular space. They could additionally tell us what might happen if the products of that Member were only available on a single Operating System. /This section is signature./ Gerv
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