Hey I've been increasingly interested in the latest developments in Europe on software patents and the effect it may have on open source and standards based development.
http://swpat.ffii.org/news/recent/index.en.html As all here know, the basis for most IT based standards is interoperability and standardised communication of information. However standards by nature offer a range of concepts that a lot of clever people have invented. Does the combination of patents and standards restrict innovation and development? I reckon so.. its good to see the W3C agree ... http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Patent-Policy-20040205/ http://xml.coverpages.org/patents.html [ Warning : Super Long ] Regards Chris Blown ***************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ *****************************************************
