Michael Adams wrote: > On Mon, 17 Aug 2009 05:13:31 -0500 > Came this utterance formulated by Dan Presley to my mailbox: > > >> I just read the story on the Reuters news service. The ban affects >> Word 2003 and 2007 only. With Office 2010 coming out soon, >> Micro$oft's pocketbook won't be hardly affected. This version does >> not use any of the patented software that led to the lawsuit and ban. >> > > What are you smoking? First of all there is no patented software which > led to the ban. The patent appies to a technique used in .docx save > format. Microsoft will surely stick to the XML .docx and .docm formats. > It is one that they poured millions into, to push through as an ISO > standard in competition to the ODF format. > >
According to what I've read at groklaw.net: 1) Microsoft knew of the technology 2) They decided to use it, without consent 3) ODF & OpenOffice are clean Here's another interesting link: http://m.thestandard.com/news/2009/08/17/microsoft-planned-bury-xml-developer-says-federal-judge According to this, Microsoft deliberately set out to harm i4i. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
