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[XML-DEV Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message] RE: Re: W3C ridiculous new policy on patents
 No, the concept is tenable. It is badly executed. The bad results of not having a good policy are everywhere in the arguments posted against it. Jeff, the community that built the a good deal of the alleged W3C technology is not the W3C, yet you are willing to let the W3C govern that technology when they have no more right to that than those whose patents are bogus. Spy Vs Spy. And yet again, you blame lawyers. Sour grapes. I'm not for bad patents. I'm for sound policy. len -----Original Message----- From: Jeff Lowery [mailto:jlowery@s...] The concept of patenting software is sound, but the mechanism is prima facie broken. I think this makes your support of RAND untenable, Len. If all patents were good ones, your arguments would be sound, but bad ones backed up by an inefficient and expensive legal process will shut out viable open technologies for no good reason. Can W3C avoid being hobbled by excluding patents? No. But it's not the exclusion of patents that's the problem here; its the threat of mandated royalties on W3C technology by those who really have not contributed to the advancement of the art. I'm afraid the legal profession in this regard is becoming like a Mesoamerican priesthood, contributing nothing but exacting a debilitating toll on the populace nonetheless. The only those at the top of the heap are immune. I'm not against patents, I'm just against bad ones that can't be challenged without incurring terrible expense. I'm not against RAND, once the bad patents are winnowed out. 
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