On Monday 01 October 2001 04:54, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: > 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
Well, it is now officially too late to say anything about it. Input closed yesterday. Most of the posts I have seen on it have predicted a slow, agonizing death for W3C because of it. We'll see what their actions are, then cope as best we can. I know if the RAND proposal is adopted that I will simply ignore their standards in my work, and never offer any support again. Civileme
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