Re: [newbie] FW: [OT] W3C and the Promotion of Fee-based Standards for the Web (important for all FREE SOFTWARE supporters.)

2001-10-01 Thread Mohammed Arafa
i got a question regarding the last w3c format for the protocols. was it free? as in can open source take the last format and extend n upgrade it for *nix, etc? i believe open source is more powerful than proprietary format if only because it grows and changes so much faster than proprietary

[newbie] FW: [OT] W3C and the Promotion of Fee-based Standards for the Web (important for all FREE SOFTWARE supporters.)

2001-09-30 Thread Franki
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

Re: [newbie] FW: [OT] W3C and the Promotion of Fee-based Standards for the Web (important for all FREE SOFTWARE supporters.)

2001-09-30 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
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

Re: [newbie] FW: [OT] W3C and the Promotion of Fee-based Standards for the Web (important for all FREE SOFTWARE supporters.)

2001-09-30 Thread civileme
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