[Fsfe-uk] Excellent news: W3C approves "royalty free" patent policy

[Robin Green]

The W3C has just announced a new "royalty free" patent policy,
superceding their prior, widely-criticised, "reasonable and
non-discriminatory" (RAND) principles.

All W3C contributors will now have to legally commit themselves
to making patents available on royalty-free terms.

http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/21/134254&mode=nested&tid=99&tid=155

As the W3C is the de facto standards body for HTML, CSS etc.
this is a big win for the anti-software-patent lobby!

-- 
Robin