friends : I am not a lawyer and perhaps some other kind community people can help me to understand what Microsoft is saying about their "XML Paper Specification". I figure it is only a matter of time before we need some sort of software on Solaris that can deal with this format but as near as I can tell the license is horribly restrictive.
This page : http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/xps/xpscommunitypromise.mspx I do not know *what* that page is trying to say. However I do see some plain language on this page : http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/xps/xpsspec.mspx Microsoft Corporation Technical Documentation License Agreement for the XML Paper Specification READ THIS! THIS IS A LEGAL AGREEMENT BETWEEN MICROSOFT CORPORATION ("MICROSOFT") AND THE RECIPIENT OF THE ABOVE REFERENCED MATERIALS, WHETHER AN INDIVIDUAL OR AN ENTITY ("YOU"). IF YOU HAVE ACCESSED THIS AGREEMENT IN THE PROCESS OF DOWNLOADING THESE MATERIALS ("MATERIALS") FROM A MICROSOFT WEB SITE, BY CLICKING "I ACCEPT", DOWNLOADING, USING OR PROVIDING FEEDBACK ON THE MATERIALS, YOU AGREE TO THESE TERMS. IF THIS AGREEMENT IS ATTACHED TO MATERIALS, BY ACCESSING, USING OR PROVIDING FEEDBACK ON THE ATTACHED MATERIALS, YOU AGREE TO THESE TERMS. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO THESE TERMS, YOU ARE NOT AUTHORIZED TO ACCESS, DOWNLOAD, USE OR REVIEW THE MATERIALS. For good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are acknowledged, You and Microsoft agree as follows: 1. You may review these Materials only (a) as a reference to assist You in planning and designing Your product, service or technology ("Product") to interface with a Microsoft product, specification, service or technology ("Microsoft Product") as described in these Materials; and (b) to provide feedback on these Materials to Microsoft. All other rights are retained by Microsoft; this Agreement does not give You rights under any Microsoft patents. You may not (i) duplicate any part of these Materials, (ii) remove this Agreement or any notices from these Materials, or (iii) give any part of these Materials, or assign or otherwise provide Your rights under this Agreement, to anyone else. etc etc etc The part that scares me are the words "You may review these Materials ... as a reference to assist You in planning and designing Your product ... to interface with a Microsoft product, specification, service or technology...". Like I said .. I am not a lawyer and I am not about to drop $300/hour ( per shark ) to a team of IP lawyers to tell me that the XPS document format forces you into Microsoft lockin. Am I reading that correct? Does that tell me that one may never implement any software on Solaris or an OpenSolaris based distro such that one may open, use, manage an XPS document? It seems to say that I must work with some Microsoft technology. - Dennis _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
