Microsoft patents XML based script automation?

2004-02-13 Thread Noel J. Bergman
See: http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3312091 Patent: http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&u=/netahtm l/search-adv.htm&r=9&p=1&f=G&l=50&d=ptxt&S1=Microsoft.ASNM.&OS=AN/Microsoft& RS=AN/Microsoft Does anyone have any idea how this would effect Ant, Mav

Re: Microsoft patents XML based script automation?

2004-02-13 Thread Conor MacNeill
On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 01:19:40 -0500, Noel J. Bergman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: See: http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3312091 Patent: http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&u=/netahtm l/search-adv.htm&r=9&p=1&f=G&l=50&d=ptxt&S1=Microsoft.ASNM.&OS=AN/Micro

Re: Microsoft patents XML based script automation?

2004-02-13 Thread Justin Erenkrantz
--On Friday, February 13, 2004 6:28 PM +1100 Conor MacNeill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: It is hard to see Ant being affected as its publication precedes the filing date for the patent, if that is relevant. Not sure about the other projects. FWIW, in the US, it is first to invent not first to file.

Re: Farewell to Martin Pöschl

2004-02-13 Thread Steven Noels
On 12 Feb 2004, at 23:50, robert burrell donkin wrote: i was planning to leave the jakarta one up (generally once created, jakarta pages stay up but sometimes are no longer linked to). does the ASF plan to take the page down after a period or is the plan that will it remain up for the forseeable

Re: Microsoft patents XML based script automation?

2004-02-13 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
Le Vendredi, 13 fév 2004, à 07:19 Europe/Zurich, Noel J. Bergman a écrit : See: http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3312091 ... Does anyone have any idea how this would effect Ant, Maven, Jelly, JSP and other technologies that use XML to describe scripting?... Doesn't prior art inva

RE: Farewell to Martin Poschl

2004-02-13 Thread Noel J. Bergman
> I figured Martin could/should be included in the foundation pages > When the news goes away from the main homepage, I'll move the > link text to [...] I think that there is already a suitable place for the link. Martin was a Member. He did not add himself to http://www.apache.org/foundation/

RE: Microsoft patents XML based script automation?

2004-02-13 Thread Noel J. Bergman
> Doesn't prior art invalidate such patents? > "Systems, methods and data structures for encompassing scripts written > in one or more scripting languages in a single file" does not sound > *that* innovative here ;-) Nothing about it sounds innovative. In terms of prior art, what about http://ww