As further evidence that the intellectual property pendulum may have finally begun swinging in the other direction, consider that, in a 180-degree reversal, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has decided to make its standards work entirely royalty-free.
In August 2001, the W3C caused a shitstorm when it proposed that reasonable and non-discriminatory (RAND) licensing should be used. RAND licensing would have allowed companies that develop technologies used in standard specifications to demand royalties for use of those technologies.
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