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

[Andrej Ricnik]

On Tue, 18 Nov 2003 09:32, Centurion Computer Technology Ltd 
wrote:
>  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.
But would a patent actually stop people from
being able to use the schema given that license
statement? I'm not a lawyer :}

Cheers,
Andrej