Jim Lawrence
accessd at shaw.ca
Tue Aug 11 02:44:30 CDT 2009
That could be a real coupe for Microsoft who will have effectively taken an open-source document format and made it proprietary... This control will only be able to exercise in North America as proprietary documents formats, used by MS, have been successfully challenged, in Europe and just ignored in Asia. The most telling sentence in the article goes as follows: On the face of it, the patent would appear to cover all usage of XML and XSDs in word processing document, which would effectively leave all other modern word processors - and other software that used their documents - liable to licensing by the company (Microsoft). Jim -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Arthur Fuller Sent: Monday, August 10, 2009 9:59 PM To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues Subject: [dba-Tech] Microsoft Patents XML documents http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9595_22-329645.html?tag=nl.e539 Arthur _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com