[lug] ms patenting xml ??

[Michael D. Hirsch]

On Monday 26 January 2004 11:57 pm, Terry Branaman 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.

That's what I thought at first, but then I thought I recalled that OOO uses 
several files, not just one file, for each document.  MS is patenting the 
idea of useing a single file.  Talk about stupid distinctions.  

Michael

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