HP, Apple Drop Support for Royalties on Web Standards
Posted by
michael
on from the peer-pressure-works dept.
Medeii writes: "This article on CNET states that Apple and HP have both decided to withdraw their support for the recommendation. Both companies issued statements supporting the development of royalty-free web standards. Both were, interestingly, also authors of the current recommendation."
Well, what a nice surprise.
by
DragonPup
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· Score: 3, Funny
Whatever their real reasons for withdrawing support, I have a feeling that the backlash a lot of people on/. expressed helped change their minds.
-Henry
-- "Useless organic meatbag" -HK-47
Re:Well, what a nice surprise.
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Anonymous Coward
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· Score: 4, Funny
It could also be that elements within the companies that "get it" weren't aware of this until the controversy arose, and managed to change the minds of the greedy bastards responsible. Corporations aren't just one big hive kind, you know.
Its all about who the customers are...
by
Whyte+Wolf
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· Score: 4, Funny
The backlash we saw here on/. and elsewhere against the RAND recommendation fromt he W3C, and the subsequent response from HP and Apple says something quite significant--I think-- about who the real customers of web technology are.
Apple and HPs move are PR motivated, and it looks like they were motivated by the response from their 'real' web cutomers -- the web developers and web designers who work with HTML and W3C 'standards' every day.
I find it interesting to note that Microsoft has yet to say anything about the backlash or its current position. Like always I suspect they hold their customers, and developers in nothing less than utter contempt.
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Beware the Whyte Wolf.
With a gun barrel between your teeth, you speak only in vowels...
So.... Apple's main OS du jour has an OSS core, HP and Apple openly combat Free Software's foes, and IBM (despite helping pen the recent W3 recommendation) dances around waving our flag like a teenybopper at a cheerleading competition.
Is anyone else feeling a certain sense of vertigo, here?:) I mean, this is *Apple* we're talking about. Christ, remember the boycott? And IB-smegging-M. Have I stumbled into +Better Than Life or something? This reality's state has surely become inconsistent. I expect the whole thing to segfault at any moment.
-- - undoware.ca
Re:What patents do these guys have, anyway?
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J'raxis
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· Score: 2, Funny
With Apple setting the standards, we would all have an Internet that looks like translucent blue candy.
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Whatever their real reasons for withdrawing support, I have a feeling that the backlash a lot of people on /. expressed helped change their minds.
-Henry
"Useless organic meatbag" -HK-47
The backlash we saw here on /. and elsewhere against the RAND recommendation fromt he W3C, and the subsequent response from HP and Apple says something quite significant--I think-- about who the real customers of web technology are.
Apple and HPs move are PR motivated, and it looks like they were motivated by the response from their 'real' web cutomers -- the web developers and web designers who work with HTML and W3C 'standards' every day.
I find it interesting to note that Microsoft has yet to say anything about the backlash or its current position. Like always I suspect they hold their customers, and developers in nothing less than utter contempt.
Beware the Whyte Wolf.
With a gun barrel between your teeth, you speak only in vowels...
So.... Apple's main OS du jour has an OSS core, HP and Apple openly combat Free Software's foes, and IBM (despite helping pen the recent W3 recommendation) dances around waving our flag like a teenybopper at a cheerleading competition.
:) I mean, this is *Apple* we're talking about. Christ, remember the boycott? And IB-smegging-M. Have I stumbled into +Better Than Life or something? This reality's state has surely become inconsistent. I expect the whole thing to segfault at any moment.
Is anyone else feeling a certain sense of vertigo, here?
- undoware.ca
With Apple setting the standards, we would all have an Internet that looks like translucent blue candy.
Liberty in your lifetime
I too have accepted a position on the W3C board. Now Please mod this up to +5 informative.
Can anybody clue me in on what relevant patents HP or Apple has, anyway?
I believe they have a patent on the trash can icon.