Disturbing thought: Is it a coincidence that, now that the web is perceived by beancounters and PHBs to be ‘not as hot as it used to be’, we have the ideas like the RAND floating about? It’s almost like a trial balloon floated by beancounters at BigCo: hey, we can’t make money off the Web any other way, why not see if we can squeeze something out of our patent portfolio which we have been giving away to freeloaders at the W3C all these years?