2009/12/24 Vickram Crishna <[email protected]>: > The HT report says clearly that as far as they are concerned, this is only > applicable in the US. I think we need to file a charge at any police station > and raid any shop, preferably an official authorised branded shop, selling > the impugned software, as India is a signatory to TRIPS and should comply > with attempts to prevent breaches of global law.
We don't allow software to be patented in India. So there is no violation of Indian laws here. Even if it is Microsoft lets not try to put ourselves in TRIPS and traps. > The 'feature' is the ability to open .xml, .docx, and .docm files. It helps > the application open its own files, and that is a little used feature? Do > people who buy MS Word use it to open OpenOffice files? That might make a > nice headline. > So they needed a workaround, having fallen into their own 'proprietary' > trap, and chose to suborn the global standards process in order to achieve > this purpose. As far as I heard, the patent in question just covers custom XML see http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2009/12/22/On-Custom-XML for more on this. > Which document standard? Features other than the above? Analyses welcome. This was the killer feature Microsoft advertised when they were trying to get ISO label for OOXML. -Praveen -- പ്രവീണ് അരിമ്പ്രത്തൊടിയില് <GPLv2> I know my rights; I want my phone call! <DRM> What use is a phone call, if you are unable to speak? (as seen on /.) Join The DRM Elimination Crew Now! http://fci.wikia.com/wiki/Anti-DRM-Campaign _______________________________________________ network mailing list [email protected] http://lists.fosscom.in/listinfo.cgi/network-fosscom.in
