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On Fri, 5 Oct 2001, Sebastian Schnitzenbaumer wrote: > That's exactly what I mean with esoteric: > > So far, *nothing* has changed. Until now, the W3C > released good stuff and it simply worked. > Why should this be different all of a sudden? > > Can we keep the patent lawyers out the door for > a moment and go back to technology, please? Because the patent lawyers have chosen not to leave _us_ alone. As much as I would _love_ to just 'go back to technology', it is becoming progressively more and more difficult when I have to constantly look over my shoulder to make sure that the lawyers haven't patented Turing Machines while no one was looking. RAND is a fundamentally flawed proposal. It in effect freezes out all the small players from the game (not surprisingly, it was proposed by a very large player) by imposing a unmeetable burden on those who can't afford to pay 'non-discriminatory' licensing fees to MegaCorp X for a otherwise free tool. When the day comes that I _can't_ release a free XML tool to CPAN _because of W3C RAND_, it will hurt not just me but directly anyone who might of used that tool, and indirectly anyone wanting to use anything depending on specifications produced by W3C. -- Benjamin Franz "Code as if whoever maintains your code is a violent psychopath who knows where you live." -- Nancy Lebovitz, the button lady
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