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W3C Revises Patent Royalty Policy

Posted by michael on from the doing-the-right-thing dept.

Jeff Heaton writes: "Looks like W3C is backing down on allowing companies to charge royalties for technologies that are incorporated into a W3C standard. In a controversial proposal made public last fall, the consortium debated whether to allow companies to charge royalty fees if their technologies are used in a standard." The new draft is online.

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  1. W3C just lost it... by DamnYankee · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Only corporate interests are going to follow a standards body that caters to their intellectual property. The W3C just shot itself in the groin area with this move and has orphaned itself from the constituencies that built it and the standards it was formed to shepherd.

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