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[hartr@redhat.com]

Hi

I just came across...

   Community: W3C and the Promotion of
   Fee-based Standards for the Web 

   http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2001-09-30-001-20-NW-CY

   This is a substantial shift in the philosophical direction of the
   W3C and should be of extreme concern to anyone who values being
   able to implement W3C standards in a royalty-free manner. In
   particular this has profound implications for the support and
   implementation of future W3C standards by the free software
   community. It is to extinguish free software development and
   deployment in the areas where the payment of royalties is required.

Can anyone comment on this? I had not heard about this before...

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