- From: Andrew Pam <xanni@glasswings.com.au>
- Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2001 13:33:29 +1000
- To: www-patentpolicy-comment@w3.org
A great many people have already made their views on the proposed changes to the W3C patent policy known. I would like to support the position that the 16 August 2001 working draft should not be adopted as written and that the W3C patent policy should be modified to make it clear that W3C standards and recommendations may not contain patented technologies and that organisations participating in the W3C standards process must agree to license patents relevant to W3C standards on a royalty-free (RF) basis to all comers. To do any less constitutes a serious threat to the Internet (and probably also to the effectiveness of the W3C). Organisations wishing to work on standards for technologies covered by patents which they are not willing to license on a royalty-free basis to Internet users may do so in another forum. Regards, Andrew Pam -- mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam http://www.xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu http://www.glasswings.com.au/ Technology Manager, Glass Wings http://www.sericyb.com.au/sc/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics P.O. Box 477, Blackburn VIC 3130 Australia Phone +61 401 258 915
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