[lug] ms patenting xml ??

[Timothy C. Klein]

* Terry Branaman (t-branaman at comcast.net) wrote:
> 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.

I think it is just a patent on the MS Office XML DTD (is that the right
term?  The thing that describes an MS Office doc structure in XML).

So not the whole of XML, just their Office XML 'schemas.'

It is a ploy -- publish the schema to appear 'open' and fair.  Then
patent the schema to give them back their iron-clad grip, as they had
with their ever-changing binray-only format.

Tim
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