[Zope] W3C and the Promotion of Fee-based Standards for the Web

[Andrew Kenneth Milton]

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| On 16 August 2001 the W3C made public a proposal to substantially change 
| their patent policy framework. Amongst the changes is support for a new 
| licensing model (called RAND) that legitimises the W3C's role in developing 
| and promoting standards that could require the payment of royalties. This is 

Most standards bodies require payment to get access to standards in some shape
or form. It was only a matter of time. A lot of people aren't happy with the
way W3C has been going on various items. Of course if they're getting money
from somewhere else maybe they can free themselves of the influence of some
of the places the money is coming from now.

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