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Subject: Re: [Patents] Re: IBM, Microsoft, BEA Snub W3C
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WIPO is pushing for policies that attack our freedom, but they are
very general and abstract.  UN support for ebXML is much more
concrete--also, it is promoting a specific monopoly in the hands of
two specific corporations, one of which has been convicted twice of
anti-trust violation.

This could be a bigger scandal.



