Re: [FYI] W3C and the Promotion of Fee-based Standards for the Web

[kris@koehntopp.de (Kristian Koehntopp)]

In schulung.lists.fitug-debate you write:
>http://www.openphd.net/W3C_Patent_Policy/draft.xhtml

>------------------------------ CUT ----------------------------------

>This is a substantial shift in the philosophical direction of the W3C 
>and should be of extreme concern to anyone who values being able to 
>implement W3C standards in a royalty-free manner.

Na, dann haben wir ja auch bald im Web eine Fragmentierung - ich denke
nicht, dass Open Source Entwickler auf Standards Ruecksicht nehmen werden
und wollen, deren Umsetzung Lizenzen und Patente involviert.

Schlau ist anders,
	Kristian
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