Sounds like Microsoft has had enough of the open standards movement and is taking their toys and going home, 'cause if they can't own it, nobody will get to play with it.
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jonas Jorgensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is not related to Mozilla, but I feel that it affects all web > developers. > > The World Wide Web Consortium has always been promoting free and open > standards. But now they are considering to recommend standards that are > based on patented technologies, meaning that implementers would have to > pay royalties to the companies that owns the patents! That would > effectively make it impossible for open source software such as Mozilla > to implement the standards. We might end up with MSIE being the most > standards-compliant browser!!! > > More information: > http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2001-09-30-001-20-NW-CY > > Write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and complain NOW - the W3C must > have your comments before the end of 30/09/01, which is TODAY!!! > > /Jonas
