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[FYI] "We'll fork the web to keep it Free" - Perens
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- Subject: [FYI] "We'll fork the web to keep it Free" - Perens
- From: "Axel H Horns" <horns@ipjur.com>
- Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2001 15:10:40 +0200
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/21994.html
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We'll fork the web to keep it Free - Perens
By Andrew Orlowski in San Francisco
Posted: 03/10/2001 at 07:30 GMT
Free software developers are ready and willing to take up the
challenge of creating open web standards, if the W3C implements
royalty-bearing licenses.
So says open source leader Bruce Perens, in one of the first
responses to our Q and A with the man steering the W3C's patent
policy, Danny Weitzner, where the issue of a forked WWW was raised.
"They say RAND licenses are inevitable - well, that's a choice, you
know," Perens told us.
[...]
The Gartner Group agrees that a forked web will be more likely if the
W3C's RAND policy is implemented, with analyst Kathy Harris saying
that royalty-bearing standards are divisive and troublesome:-
"Choosing to allow payment for patents will inevitably encourage
still more alternative standards bodies (by industry, for instance)
and domain-specific standards," she writes.
[...]
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