Archive of UserLand's first discussion group, started October 5, 1998.

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Re: Standards, W3C, and Patents

Author:	Dave Winer
Posted:	7/31/2000; 10:30:46 AM
Topic:	Standards, W3C, and Patents
Msg #:	19307 (In response to 19300)
Prev/Next:	19306 / 19308

This is where the Open Source hype was mis-directed. For users, the most important thing is choice. That's where the power is, for users, not in having access to the C code. Open source creates new bottlenecks, and tends to level the playing field. That's bad for users, imho.

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