[Gllug] Microsoft announces deals with Lynux !

[salsaman]

Richard Jones wrote:

>On Fri, Nov 03, 2006 at 04:02:29PM +0100, salsaman at xs4all.nl wrote:
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>>>On Fri, November 3, 2006 11:32 am, Richard Jones wrote:
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>>>>(1) What are these supposed patents which cover Mono and OpenXML?
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>>I believe M$ has some patents on some of the .net/mono libraries. Hence
>>most developers are avoiding using Mono, since M$ could turn around and
>>start enforcing their patents at any time.
>>
>>Regarding OpenXML, I believe M$ has patents on the XML schemas used for
>>Office documents.
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>Yes well this is the point.  You CANNOT patent a library or an XML
>schema, not even in the wacky and wonderful world of US law, and
>categorically not in the EU.
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That's the theory, at least.

http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PG01&p=1&u=/netahtml/PTO/srchnum.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1='20030028685'.PGNR.&OS=DN/20030028685&RS=DN/20030028685

Gabriel.
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