[LINK] (FWD) Berners Lee: WWW royalties considered harmful

[David Chia]

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/22561.html

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    Berners Lee: WWW royalties considered harmful
    By Andrew Orlowski in San Francisco
    Posted: 31/10/2001 at 07:42 GMT

    WWW creator Tim Berners Lee has given his strongest
    hint yet that the W3C organization he created ought
    to shun the idea of accepting royalty-bearing
    patents as web standards. He also acknowledges that
    the move could lead to the fragmentation of the
    Web.

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