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RE: [Fwd: W3C ridiculous new policy on patents]

• From: "Champion, Mike" <Mike.Champion@S...>
• To: xml-dev@l...
• Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2001 14:48:18 -0400

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bullard, Claude L (Len) [mailto:clbullar@i...]
> Sent: Monday, October 01, 2001 2:22 PM
> To: Simon St.Laurent; xml-dev@l...
> Subject: RE:  [Fwd: W3C ridiculous new policy on patents]
> 
> 
> I don't like this stuff either, Simon, but 
> as ISO had to accept the PDF PAS.

Please explain why it is a Good Thing for PDF to be an ISO standard,
encumbered as it is by Adobe's patent.  The cynic in me thinks this good for
Adobe, so that PDF is a "legal" standard for purposes of government
contracts, and convenient for the people who have invested in PDF technology
... but not a model that the Web ought to emulate.

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