[7889] in www-talk@info.cern.ch
Re: MetaMAP patents (was Re: Hot Java is here! And it *rocks*)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe English)
Sun Apr 9 13:47:33 1995
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 1995 11:44:29 +0500
Errors-To: procmaster@www19.w3.org
Reply-To: jenglish@crl.com
From: Joe English <jenglish@crl.com>
To: Multiple recipients of list <www-talk@www10.w3.org>
connolly@w3.org (Dan Connolly) wrote:
> Joe English writes:
> > And the validity of the patent makes it completely
> > unsuitable for Web-based imagemaps: this technology
> > has zero chance of being selected for standardization
> > by the IETF or W3O because of the patent.
>
> Joe: please be careful about speaking for the IETF or the W3 Consortium.
> The IETF does not reject all patented technology.
Oops! Sorry.
To clarify: I am in no way affiliated with any standards body,
and my opinion concerning the MetaMAP technology
is based solely on personal observation and conjecture.
--Joe English
jenglish@crl.com
