Good News: HP and Apple drop support for W3C RAND

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Werd,

Go get em Bruce!


On Fri, Oct 12, 2001 at 03:43:51PM -1000, Warren Togami wrote:
> http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-7506293.html
> Good News: HP and Apple drop support for W3C RAND
> 
> In Slashdot comments, Bruce Perens of HP (founder of the Open Source
> Initiative) said that HP was never in support of RAND, but one of the names
> of their attorneys mistakenly appeared on the RAND document.
> http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/10/12/2127247&mode=thread
> 
> It also appears that Bruce Perens and Eben Moglen of the FSF will be on the
> W3C advisory board.
> 
> On the down side, IBM still supports RAND patents in W3C standards.
> 
> 
> 
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