Stop Microsoft
All Things Microsoft => Microsoft as a Company => Topic started by: mobrien_12 on 24 January 2004, 08:34
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http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104_2-5146581.html (http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104_2-5146581.html)
MS has announced that they will use XML, an open standard, as their office document format. Well this poses a problem for MS because they depend on the office format for lock-in.
The solution: patent the method of acessing and modifying XML based documents in a 3rd party word processor...
Yes, they are applying for a patent on accessing the XML documents with non MS software...
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Originally posted by M. O'Brien:
http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104_2-5146581.html (http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104_2-5146581.html)
MS has announced that they will use XML, an open standard, as their office document format. Well this poses a problem for MS because they depend on the office format for lock-in.
The solution: patent the method of acessing and modifying XML based documents in a 3rd party word processor...
Yes, they are applying for a patent on accessing the XML documents with non MS software...
Let's hope this is never passed - otherwise the computer world is in deep shit!.
I wonder if a smaller company had patented this whether it would go through?
Probably not - It's all about buying the best lawyers!
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If MS were to patent XML, the entire computer world would support the W3C in getting that removed.
This won't work.