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W3C Policy To Favor Royalty-Free Patents Only

Posted by timothy on from the good-guys-in-the-corner-pocket dept.

A report on NewsForge notes that the Last Call Working Draft of the World Wide Web Consortium's patent policy has reversed the possibility found in earlier drafts of allowing patents in Web standards which required "Reasonable and Non-Discriminatory" (RAND) licensing fees. This draft is the result of the vote by the W3C's patent policy board mentioned last month, which came after a proposed loosening of the royalty-free standards in the Fall of 2001.

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  1. Royalty free by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Free as in beer? or free as in syphilis?

  2. WarCraft 3 Wont Charge Royaltys... by LordYUK · · Score: 5, Funny

    woo hoo!! Now I can patent the Wisp Rush and don't have to pay Blizzard a penny!!!! hehehe :) Me

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  3. WC3 eh?? by LordYUK · · Score: 3, Funny

    Someone has WarCraft on the brain...

    Zug Zug!

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  4. Oh no! by gpinzone · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Oh no! There go all the royalty checks on my patented tag!" - Marc Andreessen

  5. Re:WC3? by MindStalker · · Score: 5, Funny

    yes, wc3.org
    walnut creek church of christ

  6. Quality Assurance of W3C Drafts :-) by Jouni · · Score: 3, Funny
    Am I the only one who finds it more than a little ironic that their current draft page on Quality Assurance is all fscked up? :-)

    This is linked to right from their main news page, too. Introduction indeed.

    Don't you feel safer when you know that your Internet standards are in good hands?

    Jouni

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  7. Re:A step up, but not good enough for RMS... by Bruce+Perens · · Score: 3, Funny

    That and a dollar will get you a ride on the subway :-)

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