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All Things Microsoft => Microsoft as a Company => Topic started by: Laukev7 on 13 February 2004, 05:37

Title: Microsoft locks up XML.
Post by: Laukev7 on 13 February 2004, 05:37

http://slashdot.org/articles/04/02/12/2349232.shtml?tid=109&tid=126&tid=155&tid=187&tid=95&tid=99 (http://slashdot.org/articles/04/02/12/2349232.shtml?tid=109&tid=126&tid=155&tid=187&tid=95&tid=99)

The patent system is even more fucked up than I thought.

Title: Microsoft locks up XML.
Post by: SAJChurchey on 13 February 2004, 07:33

M$ did NOT lock up XML.  It's an open w3c standard.  This patent is regarding a method of organizing multilingual scripts.  For instance, if you code a webpage in JavaScript, PHP, and VBScript (although I see no reason to use VBScript anyway, this is just for the purpose of example), these scripts will be stored in another file, organized using XML, and then parsed and executed w/ the implementation file.