  Patent Policy (Read: RAND)  From: Troy Muller
<tmuller@reanimality.com> Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2001 09:47:53 -0700
Message-ID: <3BB9EFB9.90500@reanimality.com> To: www-
patentpolicy-comment@w3.org Dear Sir(s),  W3C quoted: "W3C
defines the Web as the universe of network-accessible
information.  One of W3C's primary goals is to make these
benefits  available to all people, whatever their hardware,
software, network  infrastructure, native language, culture,
geographical location, or  physical or mental ability."  This
statement alone should be enough to convince your self that the
RAND policy is the wrong thing to do.  In accepting patent
holder rights  into your "Recommendation" track, you are
effectively removing your  ability to "make these benefits
available to all people".   Patent  holders do NOT have to give
patents.  They can give patents on an  individual basis if
deemed necessary.  This is where you loose the  ability to make
this available to all.  W3C quoted: "Decentralization is without
a doubt the