Paul Cunningham wrote: > > I haven't had the time to look into it, but I have been told that XPS > > includes some MS proprietary components. IF this is true, the open > > source community and printer manufacturers won't be able to fully > > support XPS without a license for the proprietary technologies. > > If that is the case then so much for it being "open" - oh I was > forgetting it's Microsoft! But they think it will be 'open', see blog > http://blogs.msdn.com/andy_simonds/archive/2005/10/17/482135.aspx from > late last year. > From the blog you mention:
> Microsoft plans to freely license XPS technology to encourage its use > as general-purpose documents. Microsoft will grant a royalty-free > copyright license > <http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/xps/xpscopyright.mspx> to copy, > display, and distribute the XML Paper Specification. Microsoft will > also grant a royalty-free patent license > <http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/xps/xpspatentlic.mspx> to read, write > and render XPS Documents. Execution of the licenses will be > straightforward and will not require the company to sign and return > the license agreement. So maybe what I heard was true, it may use proprietary tecnology, but it looks like they are making an effort to provide 'open' access to the proprietary technologies for XPS. -Norm
