Thanks Nick.  I'm reading this.  This looks very helpful.  To others:
For me at least the font was really bad (maybe it doesn't embed the font in the PDF and it is picking an unfortunate font on Ubuntu?), if you paste the link into google it converts it to html and uses a nicer font.

Nick Burch wrote:
On Mon, 14 Apr 2008, Andrew C. Oliver wrote:
Get explicit clarification on the OSP from an actual lawyer or Microsoft.

Baker & McKenize, who are a top IP law firm, have actually produced such a report/clarification on the OSP: http://www.bakernet.com/NR/rdonlyres/EEE2F422-F747-42CA-9DAA-E72F751A2FFA/0/london_it_openxmlstandardisation_publication_jan08.pdf

Section 3.2 in particular is worth a read, since it does appear to clarify that there is a non-discriminatory, free of charge license on all the Microsoft patents, so we (and our users) are OK. The whole document's only about 10 pages, so I'd strongly recommend that people have a read of it.

Nick

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