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

[Tony Booth]

> On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 11:55, Nigel Walters wrote:
> 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/xmlp> atentlicense.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
> > > 

Oh, and I just noticed this after my last post:

http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/11/17/1345218&mode=thre
ad&tid=109&tid=126&tid=156&tid=187&threshold=5

Definitely worth reading the comments there.

Tony.