- From: Seth Johnson <seth.johnson@realmeasures.dyndns.org>
- Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 01:46:37 -0400
- To: Adam Warner <lists@consulting.net.nz>
- CC: www-patentpolicy-comment@w3.org
. . . and may I forward that interesting nugget of information? Seth Johnson Adam Warner wrote: > > Seth Johnson wrote in part: > > > The important question has now become: who is encouraging > > the W3C and its PPWG to introduce these provisions. Let > > these parties explain why they feel this move is of benefit > > to the W3C, and to the public at large. > > > This is a question that cannot be addressed without such a > > disclosure and presentation on the part of those seeking to > > benefit from the institution of such a policy by a body such > > as the W3C. > > Seth, Bruce Perens over at LWN confirms that he is forbidden from > revealing the names of the parties that are trying to introduce this > exception: > > http://www.lwn.net/Articles/4404/ > > I agree that we will be better able to understand the motivations behind > these moves if the members making this proposal reveal themselves. And > more fundamentally we do not even have access to the proposal. > > Regards, > Adam -- [CC] Counter-copyright: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/cc/cc.html I reserve no rights restricting copying, modification or distribution of this incidentally recorded communication. Original authorship should be attributed reasonably, but only so far as such an expectation might hold for usual practice in ordinary social discourse to which one holds no claim of exclusive rights.
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