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

[Nigel Walters]

On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 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.
> 
Yes, but it appears to be licensed under reasonable terms to everyone.
See http://www.microsoft.com/mscorp/ip/format/xmlpatentlicense.asp

Nigel


> 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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