Jonas J�rgensen 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 >
The WC3 has always been strongly influenced by proprietary vendors. If they take the additional step of endorsing closed technologies, they will have effectively destroyed their own function, returning standards development to the marketplace -- or the creation of some other, more effective standards organization.
