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fight...hug...change..win
microsoft is at it usual tricks again, first fight an emerging technology if it isnt yours. in case you dont win, try to buy it, in case this is not allowed or for sale, embrase the technology, then let the technology become the dejeure standard, change the standard a bit by making it a better, change the technology by making it yours, and voila you have another new and improve m$ only standard. now they try to do this to XML (as in //OO.org) by a strange //patent. The proposed patent would cover methods for an application other than they have done before. to:
the original word processor to access data in the document. The U.S. Patent Office had no record of a similar application.
i know someone in a-tech-board in charge who *really* think you can program in XML and that if your data is in XML you are compatible with the future. he is not reading my blog, nor any other page on the net I quess... By bertboerland at 24/01/2004 - 20:40 | cartoon | english | GNU | intellectual property | law | microsoft | bertboerland's blog
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