This isn't quite as bad as it looks, IMHO. I don't believe that Tim Berners-Lee would lend his name to something repressive. His stated vision has always been for a free and open WWW. I think that the W3C is simply waking up to the disturbing reality that just about anything can be patented in the USA. It will become increasingly difficult in the future for the W3C to create their own standards without accidentally stepping on the toes of some spurious patent. Their RAND licensing seeks to address this.
On Mon, 1 Oct 2001 02:57:36 +0800, "Franki" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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 > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Chuck Mead > Sent: Monday, 1 October 2001 1:58 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 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: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Cheers... :-) > -- > csm > "...software engineers, as Percy Bysshe Shelley said of poets, are the > unacknowledged legislators of our time. acknowledge this reality and try > to shape it..." - stille/lessig > -- Sridhar Dhanapalan "There are two major products that come from Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence." -- Jeremy S. Anderson
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