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W3C Ponders RAND Again

Posted by Hemos on from the hurm-what-to-do-with-this dept.

simonstl writes "Three unnamed W3C participants have suggested a new RAND policy that would let the W3C into the business of charging royalties for patent-encumbered specs. No consensus yet, but they sure seem to keep trying."

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  1. Fork the web by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    When will we have an OpenHTML group, developing a standard which will probably be called GNUML?

    I mean, we already have a company developing their own version of HTML, that only works on one browser, don't we?

    Incidently, /. displays perfectly in Links-2, and Dillo, so why anyone would use anything else is beyond me. Every day, I listen to people saying, "Oh, but I keep [IE|NETSCAPE] on my system just to browse those pages that FOOBAR-OPENSOURCE-BROWSER doesn't displayy". Yeah, right, they just can't be bothered to install a decent browser.

  2. Do they meet once a year? by Technician · · Score: 2, Funny

    I liked this gem in their July 8 meeting notes...the group meets next on 8 July

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    The truth shall set you free!