____/ Stefan Ram on Tuesday 25 December 2007 04:23 : \____
> Tim Smith <reply_in_group@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>>Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>Microsoft will deny this, but it's already confirmed that Microsoft's 'Open'
>>>XML, for example, is a patent trap. See here:
>>No more so than ODF.
>
> It was Microsoft Corporation issuing a patent-submission for
> »Word-processing document stored in a single XML file«:
>
> http://v3.espacenet.com/origdoc?DB=EPODOC&IDX=EP1376387&QPN=EP1376387
You're replying to a Microsoft agent/apologist. S/he won't tell you that IBM
has conceded all intents to ever sue (a promise was made to Free software
projects at the least) and Sun hasn't as history of what it /itself/
called 'patent terrorism' (referring to Microsoft).
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