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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. One-Click shopping by AlgUSF · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I guess Amazon is probably going to lose some money...

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  2. ObAustinPowers by JPelorat · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Gotta love those RANDy fees, baybee, yeah!!

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