That would be Danny Weitzner, the Web Consortium’s legal eagle, who did a whole lot of the hard, dirty, slogging that led to the admirable W3C Patent Policy. I am quite certain that the benefits of keeping the patent trolls away from the Web infrastructure will be enjoyed by humanity long after Danny and I and almost everyone else now living are forgotten.


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