- From: Mark Beumeler <mbeumeler@nc.rr.com>
- Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 16:34:37 -0700
- To: www-patentpolicy-comment@w3.org
I respectfully submit that questions, such as "Should standards bodies STANDARDIZE on proprietary (fee required) IP?" need to be considered in context. Notice that what made the Internet great is based on publicly funded (by government monies, by personal donations to the public use, and by businesses) efforts. Sanctioning someone or some business to hold the public use of these public trusts is very much sanctioning theft and extortion, like charging people for the use of public roads, stealing welfare food, printing counterfit money, etc. I believe there is a federal constitutional case to be made for racketteering in such behavior, a la Ricoh. With suspicious regard Mark Beumeler
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