Web Shaman Fights His Demons
Michelle Delio,
Wired News,
May 23, 2003
More on the W3C's new patent policy. The key message is this: "The CRLFpatent policy is a formal statement of what had been a generally CRLFaccepted principle: Any technology adopted as a standard should CRLFbe freely available to anyone who cares to use it, without the fear of CRLFbeing slapped with licensing fees." Call me a sceptic: I still don't think CRLFthe proposal is strong enough, and I think we will see the day when CRLFsome company manages to sneak a royalty-bearing patent through CRLFthe W3C standards process. To the detriment of us all.
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