hi john, > OK, but when Microsoft buys the tiny Canadian company and starts > enforcing the patent on other users of xml we may be all laughing > through our tears.
this specific patent is not about using xml (but about a specific type of use of xml). there are quite many patents on trivial technologies and several of them are about xml: most of those patents won't ever stand in court in all but one country in the world (if you happen to live in that one country, please stand up and do something for your nation). afaik, scribus handling of the xml in its .sla files is not optimized enough to even think about the question, if scribus uses ideas which have been patented by that company. it has been clearly stated by a member of the team that there is no reason to worry about it. have fun a.l.e
