Hi all,
you guys really need to look at this, it might be time to put our voices
behind open source and free software...
If companies have to pay royalties for the use of standards, (like the web
for example)
free software in those areas may become a thing of the past..
Take apache for example, if W3C thinks up the next phase of the web, and its
a royalty product, apache may well disappear as free software, ditto Zope
and all the others....
Worth thinking about...
rgds
Frank
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Sent: Monday, 1 October 2001 1:58 AM
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Subject: [OT] W3C and the Promotion of Fee-based Standards for the Web
Folks... if you have not seen this there are only a few hours left to
make your voice heard. Please go and read this... our internet is in
danger from corporate interest again!
http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2001-09-30-001-20-NW-CY
Send your comments here:
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Cheers... :-)
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csm
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to shape it..." - stille/lessig
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