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  • [Photo] J.W. Bizzaro • May 22, 2003
    An article by Paul Festa:

    ``The Web's leading standards body on Tuesday finalized a patent policy banning the use of most royalty-bearing technology in its technical recommendations, an issue that sparked a clash between open-source advocates and software makers.

    ``The Royalty-Free Patent Policy, announced by the Patent Policy Working Group of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), has changed little from a draft released eight weeks ago. In shutting fee-bearing patents out of standards development in all but exceptional cases, it marks a compromise between open-source advocates and proprietary software companies.''

    Full story:
    http://news.com.com/2100-1032_3-1008800.html

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