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Re: [News] [OSS] Microsoft Patents and OpenDocument Format

__/ [ [H]omer ] on Friday 18 May 2007 17:27 \__

> Verily I say unto thee, that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:
>> Nice Standard You've Got There (Hate to see you use it...)
>> 
>> ,----[ Quote ]
> [...]
>> | Microsoft started talking in the Fortune piece about a specific
>> | number of patents -- 45 -- that it claims OpenOffice (and
>> | presumably any other implementation of ODF) would infringe.
> 
> Let's get this straight. Is he saying that Microsoft claims the ODF
> standard infringes their patents???

No, but they attack OpenOffice, which facilitates ODF functionality.

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