7 wrote:
> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>
>> Microsoft Patents XML Word Processing Documents
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>> "Embrace. Extend. Patent. On Tuesday, Microsoft was
>>> granted U.S. Patent No.7,571,169 for its 'invention' of
>>> the Word-processing document stored in a single XML file
>>> that may be manipulated by applications that understand
>>> XML." [...]
>> `----
>>
>> http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/08/06/2322209/Microsoft-Patents-XML-Word-Processing-Documents?art_pos=1
>
> So when micoshaft marketing plops, minions and fraudsters were
> banging on the ISO table across various committees and across
> the globe insulting the intelligence of every tom dick and
> harry present at the table, they were also patenting what they
> preached as the crap that should be adopted as an
> international standard?
So much for OpenXML and Microsoft's open standards, eh? :-)
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