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You're in country now. Welcome to the bush. A draft isn't voluntary because the destination is unpopular. Big companies do back off. Note the recent MS decisions on Passport. I doubt we had any influence there; Spy vs Spy, but they did have to compromise. The W3C is not about little guys. I suspect that is why OASIS is becoming more popular for experimental efforts while the W3C is becoming WebISO. len -----Original Message----- From: Simon St.Laurent [mailto:simonstl@s...] On Mon, 2001-10-01 at 15:45, Bullard, Claude L (Len) wrote: > That's why one learns to read the contracts > and keeps a lawyer around to ask. Failure to > know the law is not a defense against prosecution. And neither is failure to support the law. Unfortunately, certain key organizations (US PTO, US Govt generally, and now W3C) seem to be caving in to some rather gratuitous claims made by powerful companies. Not everyone can afford a lawyer - I can always call my brother, but patent specialists in particular are pricey. This isn't a libertarian paradise where we can all afford the help we might need. As I said, these so-called contracts are more bondage than benefit, often entered into on terms that are far from voluntary.
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