- From: Nickolai Dobrynin <dobrynin@miller.cs.uwm.edu>
- Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2002 18:21:26 -0600 (CST)
- To: www-patentpolicy-comment@w3.org
I am writing in regards to the W3C "Royalty-free" patent policy proposal. I believe that, even though this proposal does carry positive ideas in it, there is a major drawback that, if approved, will cause harm to the use and development of the free software (as defined by Richard M. Stallman and the GNU project; please see http://www.fsf.org/ for details) and eventually will impede competition and innovation. I am urging you to read the address recently made by the Free Software Foundation at http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/w3c-patent.html on this issue and believe that the proposal should be enhanced to fully reflect the viewpoint of this charity. Regards, Nickolai Dobrynin Dept. of EE/CS University of WI-Milwaukee USA
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