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W3C Approved Patent Policy: Royalty Free Standards

Posted by michael on from the better-decisions-through-harassment dept.

Danny Weitzner writes "The World Wide Web Consortium has approved the W3C Patent Policy based on review by the W3C Advisory Committee and thanks to lots of input and cajoling from the Open Source community and slashdoters. Read the public Director's decision. We're the first major standards organization that sets the explicit goal of producing only standards that can be implemented without paying patent royalties. Our policy requires legal commitments from all who contribute to the development of Web standards that patents held by the contributor will be available on royalty-free terms. Both proprietary and open source software have been critical to the growth of the Web. With this policy, we intend to enabled continued innovation by both open source and proprietary development."

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  3. /. editors never heard of a hyphen? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
    Don't they teach English in schools anymore? Or are they just teaching it wrong? It's "Royalty-Free Standards", so people's brains can instantly know that it isn't to be read as "Royalty Free-Standards".

    Geeks get this wrong most frequently when using the word "based", as "reality based TV". I don't know what a "based TV" is, let alone a reality one. Of course, hyphens aren't always included, as in "the big red car", because the "red car" is just "big".

    Live and learn.

  4. Re:FIRST by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

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  9. Re:.NET by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    But it's not GPLed! It can't be royalty free if it's not GPLed! That's why .GNU is going to clean Microsoft's clocks. Fucking sodomite Microsoftians.

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