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Re:W3C and the WHATWG sign agreement to collaborate on singl... by frivoal on Tuesday May 28, 2019 @11:45PM (#20036685)
> The W3C is not open to input from all. If you open a GitHub issue contributing an idea, but do not pay member fees, they cannot incorporate your idea into the spec, because of Intellectual Property Rights concerns. There is no way in the W3C to say "I sign over my IPR rights" without also paying thousands of dollars per year.

This is not true: https://www.w3.org/2019/Process-20190301/#contributor-licens...

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