[wellylug] Microsoft Office XML format -- It appears to be reasonably open & useful !?

[Centurion Computer Technology Ltd]

Microsoft wouldn't give anything away without a catch.

According to the liscense, they either have or are applying for patents
on the schema or any implementation which will allow other programs to
work with word documents using their schema.

On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 11:16, Nigel Walters wrote:
> Slashdot has an article today pointing Microsoft's Office XML schemas
> and the licensing for them. It appears to be realtively open. Am I
> missing something ?
> 
> A useful link is
> 
> http://isb.oio.dk/info/news/wordml+published.htm
> 
> Nigel
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