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Jeff Jaffe Named CEO of W3C

Posted by kdawson on from the what-price-standards dept.

blozza2070 notes the news that Jeff Jaffe has been appointed CEO of the World Wide Web Consortium. Until January Jaffe was CTO at Novell and, while his name hasn't come up very often in this community, he is one of the architects of the Novell-Microsoft patent deal. A reading of Jaffe's blog while at Novell tends to paint him as a software patent supporter, Microsoft apologist, and no fan of the FSF. This strongly worded page at Boycott Novell features copious links to support the above characterization.

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  1. That's no human by binarylarry · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    He's a clone of Bill Gates! Created by Microsoft over the span of the last decade to ensure Microsoft conquers the world!

    Look and see: http://investincotedazur.com/en/newsletter/index.php?txt=act9129

    *tinfoil hat activated*

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  2. Re:Break out the tar and feathers by Lunix+Nutcase · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    So are you referring to IBM? Oracle? Intel?

  3. Re:w3c outliving its usefulness by Lunix+Nutcase · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Maybe it should be run by people who have no ties to corporations and who develop open source software only.

    So people who have no relevancy to the world.

  4. Re:Witch hunts by LinuxAndLube · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Jeremy, I hope that I'm not too OT here, but what's your stance on Google's software patents? I hear that they have patented MapReduce, which is basically just an algorithm. Don't you find that scary, that these large, powerful companies are patenting algorithms?