The Word Wide Web Consortium[*] is considering allowing standards
restricted by "Reasonable And Non-Discriminatory" licenses. AFAICT
"reasonable" is never defined, and it's a slipperly slope anyway.
All the links and commentary you need:
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/09/30/1454216&mode=nested
Voice your displeasure today to: www-patentpolicy-comment@w3.org
* The W3C Tim "inventor of the web" Berners-Lee's organization,
and is responsible for developing standards for the web's most
basic infrastructure, most famously HTML, HTTP, and XML.
-- Mike Linksvayer http://gondwanaland.com/ml/
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