w3c goes royalty-free

der.hans wrote:

> moin, moin,
>
> looks like we might've won :).

Good news for the web and associated technologies!
Eric


>
> http://news.com.com/2100-1023-845023.html
>
> http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-patent-policy-20020226/
>
> http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/02/26/1513210&mode=thread&tid=155
>
> The last mostly just leads to the first two links :).
>
> Has anybody seen a reference to the Pentagon switching 25k PCs over to Open
> Source as quoted by one of the German representatives responsible for
> deciding what software the Bundestag should be using to replace NT?
>
> http://www.heute.t-online.de/ZDFheute/artikel/0,1251,COMP-0-178460,00.html
> ( 3rd "Zitat" on the left )
>
> »Ich habe gerade vor ein paar Tagen gehört, dass das Pentagon 25.000 PC auf
> Open Source umgestellt hat. Das ist natürlich ein hohes Vertrauen, was vom
> Pentagon in die Open-Source-Entwicklung investiert wird.«
>
> »I just heard a couple of days ago, that the Pentagon has switched 25,000 PCs
> to Open Source. That is a lot of trust that the Pentagon is investing in
> Open Source Developement.« ( my translation of the above quote )
>
> ciao,
>
> der.hans
>