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At 05:34 PM 1/11/01 +0100, Daniel Veillard wrote: > If you think that the "homework" is just to collect prior, >then it's probably something which could be done within W3C >(directly by the staff or by a public call for prior art). >But the legal action is where the problem might get solved >and is an expensive (money, time, human, ...) process. I don't >think W3C has enough resources (money, time, human, ...) to >follow this path. And who else would take this task ? The W3C has made calls for prior art to fight patent assertions in the past, I wouldn't expect that policy to change. With all respect to Eve, Sun's "offer" for the licensing is inappropriate in an consortium-based standards body, and should not attempt to force submissions of what otherwise could be true IP of other companies into the open-source space. I would certainly lobby for a rejection of any document containing such a clause. Ann --- Ann Navarro, Author and Chief Geek WebGeek, Inc. http://www.webgeek.com Now Available! - XHTML By Example - http://www.webgeek.com/books/xhtmlbyexample/
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