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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. Hand in the Cookie Jar by The+Gardener · · Score: 2, Funny

    a large number of issues raised by comments from W3C Members and the general public.

    That is so much more polite than "We got caught and got our ass reamed.

    The Gardener

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  2. the marque tag will still work right?!?? by edrugtrader · · Score: 2, Funny

    damn i hope so.

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