Approve of draft policy - disapprove of software patenting from atmcneil@earthlink.net on 2002-12-31 (www-patentpolicy-comment@w3.org from January 2003)

From: <atmcneil@earthlink.net>
Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2002 05:48:13 -0800
To: www-patentpolicy-comment@w3.org
Message-ID: <Springmail.0994.1041342493.0.99891900@webmail.pas.earthlink.net>

 I am an active memeber in the Open Source Software community and have been
informed about the patent policy W3C is considering. I request that W3C
approve the draft patent policy, because it's a compromise that protects the
right of Open Source / Free Software programmers to implement W3C standards.

I object to software patents, and support efforts to eliminate them at the
legislative level.

Sincerely,
Andrew McNeil
Williamsburg, Virginia

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