- From: <marnellm@portia.portia.com>
- Date: Tue, 9 Mar 1999 23:40:43 -0500 (EST)
- To: Chris Wilson <cwilso@MICROSOFT.com>
- cc: "'jrexon@newsguy.com'" <jrexon@newsguy.com>, www-style@w3.org
On Wed, 10 Mar 1999, Chris Wilson wrote: > I'd like to say I think that will happen, but I doubt it. If you read > pretty much any other Member Submission to the W3C, you'll find that the > boilerplate says pretty much exactly the same thing - that you will be able > to obtain a license to use that IP, in exchange for reciprocal rights. > That's true of XSL, for example, as well as PGML, VML, and most of the rest > of the Submissions to the W3C (http://www.w3.org/Submission/). Even before > this patent flap, you would still "need to obtain a license" to use, e.g., > XSL, because the companies who made the original Submission said you had to > (not just Microsoft). I think this is an issue to be raised with the W3C > and how it works. That always has been the problem since the W3C took over internet standards as applied to the world wide web. And you're right, that is a problem with the W3C and how it works, but nobody listened when people objected to the structure when it was created, and I don't see it changing now, no matter how much we bitch about it. No use digging up old bones to gnaw on now. Matt
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