It seems to me that the existence of a RAND licensing model for W3C standards is not at question at all. The comment period that has been opened by the W3C is for comments regarding how the RAND licensing model should work, not whether the W3C should have (or not have) a way of creating standars that include patented ideas. So my question is : Is there still any chance that the W3C might decide not to promote standards that are not royalty free ? or is a RAND licensing model pretty much a done deal ? only that the details on how it is going to work are beeing discussed.
[This seems to me rather important because the comment period seems to have been created to allow the people to comment on how the RAND licensing model should work. On the other hand, most of the comments that have been posted are focused on the whether a licensing model where patents are allowed should exist at all. If a licensing model that allows patents is a done deal, the open source community should start working on a solution that works for them right away.]
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It seems to me that the existence of a RAND licensing model for W3C standards is not at question at all. The comment period that has been opened by the W3C is for comments regarding how the RAND licensing model should work, not whether the W3C should have (or not have) a way of creating standars that include patented ideas. So my question is : Is there still any chance that the W3C might decide not to promote standards that are not royalty free ? or is a RAND licensing model pretty much a done deal ? only that the details on how it is going to work are beeing discussed.
[This seems to me rather important because the comment period seems to have been created to allow the people to comment on how the RAND licensing model should work. On the other hand, most of the comments that have been posted are focused on the whether a licensing model where patents are allowed should exist at all. If a licensing model that allows patents is a done deal, the open source community should start working on a solution that works for them right away.]