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For the scope of authority over that set of contract entities to which the answer can be applied. I don't like this stuff either, Simon, but as ISO had to accept the PDF PAS, there will be technology innovations that will not be made available without some licensing. The web will be the medium of technical advances, or it will be a bazaar, a ghetto of half-implemented notions. We've been crusing for a long time in the world that DARPA paid for. If the W3C only recommends royalty-free technologies, expect the members to withhold the best stuff. Flash and PDF disprove the myth of open source as the sole arbiter of product survival on the web. What is actually at risk here is the cohesiveness of the W3C membership. Again, as long as it was simply a technology incubator, it has served us well. Making it a legislative authority is a mistake. Yet unless some means of administering such authority is found, expect the large corporations to do as they will under the fog of inexact law. I am reading the document; so far, it looks like an attempt to cope with the emerging situation, not an attempt to create the situation. -----Original Message----- From: Simon St.Laurent [mailto:simonstl@s...] On Mon, 2001-10-01 at 13:54, Bullard, Claude L (Len) wrote: > o What is needed? > o What is possible? > o What is sustainable? I'd add a "for who" to the end of all of those questions.
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