Richard, In relation to Hubert's comment I'm interested to hear your view on the Microsoft Open Specification Promise (OSP) that Microsoft applies to OOXML since last October. See http://www.microsoft.com/interop/osp/default.mspx
Cheers, Waldo Intel Corporation - Platform Software Engineering, UMG - Hillsboro, Oregon -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Hubert Figuiere Sent: Monday, June 11, 2007 9:50 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: foundation-list@gnome.org Subject: Re: GNOME Foundation Board Meeting Minutes :: 7/6/07 Richard Stallman wrote: > However, it may be true that we don't have much of a choice in this > matter. Certain aspects of OOXML are patented by Microsoft, in the US > and some other countries. Microsoft offers a gratis patent license, > on conditions that do not allow free implementations. To change OOXML > enough that we could distribute an implementation of it in the US > would be a very big change. > > See http://gnu.org/philosophy/microsoft-new-monopoly.html. Richard, Can you quote your sources when you say that the patent grant from Microsoft does not cover free software implementation? The link above only talks about XPS which is NOT part of the OpenXML specification. Hub _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
