patentholders have failed; please fix section 3, items 3 and 7

• From: James Salsman <james@bovik.org>
• Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2002 14:30:12 -0800 (PST)
• To: www-patentpolicy-comment@w3.org
• Message-ID: <20021230223012.9075.qmail@bovik.org>

The patent holders have failed the W3C, repeatedly doing more harm than
good.  For example, the lack of implementations of the INPUT TYPE=FILE's 
ACCEPT attribute [1] has held back the web to be less of an interactive 
medium, more like television than what it is capable of.

I wholeheartedly support the Free Software Foundation's suggestion to 
improve section 3, items 3 and 7 of [2].  Thank you for the opportunity 
to share this important comment.

Please act to implement these and other improvements.

Sincerely,
James Salsman

[1] http://bovik.org/devup-petition/tbl-devup.txt

[2] http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-patent-policy-20021114/#sec-Requirements

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