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

[Centurion Computer Technology Ltd]

On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 09:31, Andrej Ricnik wrote:
> 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 :}

Exactly,  either you agree to their T&C or they sue you out of
existance.  We need some body to review and rebut their patent
applications.


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