IP: Free software to get a voice in patent issue: it.mycareer.com.au, Software

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

> Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2001 15:59:27 +1100
> From: Nathan Cochrane <ncochrane () theage fairfax com au>
> Hi Dave
>
> I know you have received some input in the last couple of days about this 
> controversial patent issue. Here's an update from the W3C side of the story:
>
> <http://it.mycareer.com.au/breaking/2001/10/03/FFXMDNS0CSC.html>


> Free software to get a voice in patent issue



> By NATHAN COCHRANE, AGE IT
> Wednesday 03 October, 2001 15:43 GMT+10:00


> An industry working group that has advanced the notion of including 
> patents in future Internet standards is likely to include new members from 
> the Free Software community when it meets on October 15.
> The draft recommendations anger Free Software advocates who say any plan 
> to incorporate patents in future core technologies will undermine the 
> Internet's ability to communicate.
> World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) spokeswoman Janet Daly said the volume and 
> quality of the responses to the Patent Policy Framework draft, the 
> Reasonable and NonDiscrimantory (RAND) licensing system, over the last two 
> days had been "significant". She said although many highprofile members of 
> the Free Software community are not members of the W3C, there was scope 
> for them to be added to the group.



> "It is clear that the issue of any RAND option in a Patent Policy 
> Framework produced by W3C is unacceptable by many of the commentors and 
> the reasons they provide are at times detailed and at times rather 
> succinct," Daly said.
> "Reconstitution

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