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Title: Re: W3C as Golden Goose (was RE: [Fwd: W3C r Having served on the IPR Task Force for the Web3D Consortium and
having written the ipr policy of HumanMarkup group before it came
under OASIS auspices which supercede those, I can say that RAND
utterly demolishes anything resembling open standards. Yes, it is THAT
simple.
And shortly after that... interoperability. The good news is that
such a scheme is likely to be short-lived and may prove to strengthen
the understanding that open standards actually are necessary, even for
those companies who are willingly signing their own death warrants
with this policy.
The one proviso that I have not seen addressed yet is this: Does
this policy allow retroactivation of patents currently not
enforced?
Following is the first sentence in the definition of
"Essential Claims:"
""Essential Claims" refers to all claims in any
patent or patent application with an effective filing date within one
year and one day after the publication of the first Public
Working Draft, in any jurisdiction in the world that would necessarily
be infringed by implementation of the recommendation."
Let the lawsuits flow...
Ciao,
Rex Brooks
At 11:54 PM -0700 10/1/01, Don Park wrote:
While W3C is guilty of being gullible, we need to protest against the few -- Rex Brooks
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