Hi, ..more legal _shit_, Microsofts New Zeeland XML patent... http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20040408113135111 http://www.nzoss.org.nz/portal/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=290 http://v3.espacenet.com/textdoc?DB=EPODOC&IDX=EP1376387&QPN=EP1376387 http://www.microsoft.com/mscorp/ip/format/xmlpatentlicense.asp
..a diagnosis: http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1562330,00.asp ..prior art: http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107_2-5187149.html http://news.com.com/2008-1012_3-5186219.html?tag=nefd.lede ..and prior art: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=4937 .."Make Your Open Source Software GPL-Compatible. Or Else": http://www.dwheeler.com/essays/gpl-compatible.html ;-) ..my own guess, is Microsoft's real issue with the GPL, is they are giving up their own code, just like Apple did with FreeBSD*, but wants to make GNU/Linux closed source, so they need the GPL defeated. ..so Microsoft funds SCO's litigation against IBM etc, patent's the XML file format because Microsoft doesn't want to share any source at all. ..Apple could and did legally under the BSD licence, ditch their own OS and made their OS X an enhanched FreeBSD* clone, because the BSD license does not force distribution of source code on distribution with "other" code. ..*(it _was_ freeBSD, wasn't it? At least _one_ of the *BSD's.) -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt... ;-) ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... Scenarios always come in sets of three: best case, worst case, and just in case. _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
