[Fsfe-ie] patents letter stuff

[Justin Mason]

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Ian Clarke writes:
>Ciaran O'Riordan wrote:
>> A request:
>>   Can people find a few great technologies that *aren't* patented?
>> 
>> I'm thinking about SMS text messaging? is that patent-free?
>> Does anyone know of other technologies that have really taken off?
>
>Um, the Internet? :-)

Also, the Web is *explicitly* patent-free -- or at least, if patents exist
on technologies that are to be WWW standards, they *must* be licensed so
that anyone can implement them without paying royalties, ie. as if no
patent existed.

  http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Patent-Policy-20030520.html

- --j.
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