[lug] ms patenting xml ??

[Terry Branaman]

Don't OpenOffice and StarOffice already use XML to store documents? If
so, then (depending on how broad Microsoft's patent is) their patent
should be denied, since there are preexisting examples.

On Mon, 2004-01-26 at 20:11, bill ehlert wrote:
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> Microsoft Justifies Its XML Patent Moves
> 
> By Mary Jo Foley, Microsoft Watch 
> January 24, 2004   
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> 
> Microsoft watchers are questioning yet again
> Microsoft's intentions toward XML, the Worldwide
> Web Consortium (W3C) Extensible Markup Language
> standard.
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>     . . .
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> http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,4149,1460095,00.asp
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> **  i really don't understand this.
> 
>     but i have the feeling it's a  Bad Thing
>     for open-source software
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