On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 7:16 PM, Andrew C. Oliver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > There are reasons to > believe that Microsoft has filed and intends to file patents regarding > OOXML. We're still looking for specific references on them.
When you find them, let us know. If and when you find a valid patent, and there is any effort made to enforce said patent upon our licensees, then we would address the issue. In the most extreme case, it would mean that we would pull the OOXML functionality. But that's essentially no different than anything else that we work on. The only reason this seems different to you is that you have suspicions. What you seem concerned about is a scenario in which Microsoft is stupid enough to fund Sourcesense to produce some functionality that we would yank. As such a scenario would only end up with Sourcesense a bit richer and Microsoft a bit poorer, and the ASF no longer supporting OOXML, that scenario seems a bit far fetched to me. In any case, if we stopped every project whenever anybody had a suspicion of a patent, we would get nothing done. Meanwhile, you have expressed a -1 and can not provide a specific reason to back it up. I would strongly suggest that the appropriate time to bring up such an objection is when you have the data to back it up. Feel free to say "I told you so" at that time. - Sam Ruby --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
