- From: Kapil Hari Paranjape <kapil@imsc.res.in>
- Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 08:45:19 +0530
- To: www-patentpolicy-comment@w3.org
Dear Committee, As an academic working in a developing country (India) I must applaud the current draft as it insists that the protocols that are proposed as standards for the Internet be implementable without restrictions. This re-inforces the view of a "truly world wide" and "open" internet that we are trying to sell to those that govern us. Technology that is restricted is often used by vendors in the Third World to sell at higher prices while providing kick-backs to those in the decision making heirarchy (also called corruption!)---there is no "free market" since the vendor can claim to be sole provider. Thanks and best regards, Kapil Paranjape. -- Always use GPG for privacy http://www.imsc.res.in/~kapil/gpg.html for my Public Key. ------------------------------------------------------------------ 768D/FED1D08D 2000-02-19 Kapil Hari Paranjape <kapil@imsc.res.in> 1024g/CECEB39B 2000-02-19 Kapil Hari Paranjape <kapil@imsc.res.in> Key fingerprint = B6D2 F4F2 A37C B887 DFA2 9100 5F22 0D1D FED1 D08D --
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