I am opposed to any effort to commercialize and monopolize any aspect of the internet communication/interface technology.
Already I have to pay for my computer to do anything on the Internet.
Then I have to pay $50.00 per month to access the Internet.
Who say that E Mail is free??
Through the current fees that I pay for access and software I ALREADY pay for these esoteric technologies.
So granting this patent would be strangely unique.
So I object and will be writing to Canadian legislators about this issue.
Imagine if all the books in the Nelson library were available only in a coded format. To access the library I currently need a library card (this card, in Canada, is not free because I pay for libraries through my property taxes). If the books were encoded I might then have to pay a "fee per book" to decode each book.
If this came into effect many in Nelson would object.
I would not use the library at all and I would pillory the bureaucrats who allowed this to happen.
Douglas Curry,
Nelson, British Columbia, Canada.
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