Jerry Park wrote: > > 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.
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