W3C.org Patent Policy Protest Continues

Wednesday, October 3rd, 2001 at 8:30 AM | Category: Meryl's Notes Blog No comments

Ben Henick has been working his behind off since this whole thing came to light. In talking with him, Shirley, and Zeldman, we realized there was little resources out there to explain the whole deal in English. As much as I have read about all of this, I am still not completely clear on what it means. We did a quick search on articles that explain it better and most of the search results led to Microsoft’s butting heads with W3C back in 1999. But, we did manage to find a few:

c|Net – W3C patent plan draws protests

c|Net – W3C extends patent plan comment time

Newsbytes – A Pay As-You-Go World Wide Web?

The Register – Web standards schism “terrible” – W3C patent policy boss

The Register – The Free Web’s Over, as W3C Blesses Net Patent Taxes

Keep watching Zeldman, Digital Web, and WaSP for updates on this since we only have 9 more days to comment by sending an email to www-patentpolicy-comment@w3.org. You can view the comments from others.

Keep up the great work, Ben.

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