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Tim Bray wrote: > On Mar 6, 2004, at 12:32 PM, Dennis Sosnoski wrote: > >> I'm sure most people on the list are aware of the ongoing >> reexamination of the Eolas patent and its preliminary rejection based >> on prior art (see http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1543843,00.asp, >> for instance). As it looks increasingly likely that this patent will >> end up overturned and Microsoft will save the $521M > > > How about MSFT pays a small commission, say 1%, to W3C in recognition of > TimBL's contribution to this effort.... -Tim 1% of what? The cost of HTML? 1% of how much they charge for their browser? (hmmm.. why /did/ they make the first CSS compliant browser -- and it was for the Mac!) Should anybody using the web pay 1% to the U.S. Defense Department (non-U.S. since we paid for it already)? I wonder how much innovation has occurred out of a desire to defeat Microsoft. Should they pay MS for the inspiration? Its all good... Slippery slopes et al. -Rob
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