At 06:25 PM 10/3/2001 +0100, you wrote:
>Just in case folks haven't seen this:
>
>THE FREE WEB'S OVER, AS W3C BLESSES NET PATENT TAXES
>A belated storm of protest has greeted a move by the World Wide Web
>Consortium to bless fee-bearing patents as official web standards. The
>proposal would allow patents, such as the notorious GIF image format, to
>become web standards, thus giving the patent owners the right to exploit
>them commercially.
>
>Source: The Register
>http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/21948.html
>
>Cheers,
>Peter
This is the subject of a raging debate over at XML-DEV
The list archives are at http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/
Look for the subject:
RE: [xml-dev] W3C Rants (was: RE: W3C as Golden Goose ...)
Jack
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