Vincent, Have you seen this? http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-patentpolicy-comment/2001Oct/0555.html
IMO, at a very minimum if a standard depends on particular patents then the W3C should make a rule that it will NOT ever release a recommendation unless all patents applicable to it are listed in advance along with the RAND/RF status of each applicable patent. Also, if the W3C consortium goes thru with this policy of allowing RAND patents as necessary to implement W3C standards then the licensing terms for those patents should be required to be in public view. Frankly, I think that the W3C is making a huge mistake here. Some of the standards that it puts forth will have no open source implementations if it continues down this route and competing open source standards will be developed by others. If the W3C wants to fork the web I guess that is up to them though. On Tue, 02 Oct 2001 10:24:59 +0200, Vincent Hardy wrote: >Hello, > >For those interested in the issue, the W3C updated its web site >with some replies to the patent questions: > >http://www.w3.org > >see: > >http://www.w3.org/2001/10/patent-response > >and: > >http://www.w3.org/2001/08/patentnews >http://www.w3.org/2001/08/16-PP-FAQ > >FYI, >Vincent. > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
