Marco Fioretti wrote:
"In the New Zealand Herald, Adam Gifford has written an article blasting Microsoft
for burying the New Zealand Intellectual Property Office in paperwork. One example is
Patent 525484, accepted by the office and now open for objections until the end of May,
which says Microsoft invented and owns the process whereby a word-processing document
stored in a single XML file may be manipulated by applications that understand XML."
Slashdot page:
http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/05/03/15/0118201.shtml?tid=155&tid=109
Original article:
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=5&ObjectID=10115247
Ciao,
Marco
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Someone else raised this on the list back when MS first registered the
patent last year. I made comment in support of doing something about it
considering that OOo's file format is all about XML.
Our concerns however were met with deafening silence and a shrug or two.
Non-American so it seems it doesn't matter.
Thank god the NZ Open Source Society is going to fight it.
Maybe people would like to contribute to the fight fund.... yea right!
Yo
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