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W3C Poised To Release New Patent Policy

Posted by timothy on Monday May 19, 2003 @10:15AM from the weasel-avoidance dept.

egoff writes "According to ComputerWorld, the Patent Policy Working Group at the W3C is ready to release a new proposal for dealing with technology patents that get in the way of creating web standards. While making no comment, the W3C was seeking public input for its Royalty Free Patent Policy until April 30th."

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Hey... by craenor · 2003-05-19 10:18 · Score: 4, Funny

I thought Bezos already had this patent...
April 30? by numbski · 2003-05-19 10:22 · Score: 3, Funny

Good to know they gave us so much time to comment...

Negative numbers or division by 0 and core dump? :)

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Re:Europeans, get your act together by shaitand · 2003-05-19 10:39 · Score: 3, Funny

French, we all know your government is pissed at the united states over iraq, use it, point out the American government is trying to force it's corporate domination on other countries like it has it's own people! (hell if they buy it, I'll move to france ;) )