RE: Regarding OOXML and Microsoft patents
That's the case in Germany wrt trademarks. I very much doubt that it applies to patents. Cheers, Waldo -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rui Miguel Silva Seabra Sent: Friday, July 20, 2007 12:22 PM To: Kevin Kubasik Cc: foundation-list@gnome.org; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Miguel de Icaza Subject: Re: Regarding OOXML and Microsoft patents Hi, It is my non-lawyer point of view that the Microsoft OSP is absolutely irrelevant and that in the soon to be EU law may actually be a complete red herring, since it may soon be the case that you don't have to be the owner of patents to make the authorites do the enforcement. ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
RE: GNOME Foundation Board Meeting Minutes :: 7/6/07
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
Linux Foundation
FYI http://www.linux-foundation.org/en/Minutes_of_the_February_14_Leadership _meeting Cheers, Waldo Intel Corporation - Platform Software Engineering, UMG - Hillsboro, Oregon ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
RE: Mellon awards update
Accessibility would be an excellent candidate. I suggest to find a University that is interested to work on that and work together with them to define a proposal. See for example http://dot.kde.org/1161821085/ on how KDE is part of the SQO-OSS project. Adriaan can surely tell you more of what they did to get that set up and funded. Cheers, Waldo Intel Corporation - Platform Software Engineering, UMG - Hillsboro, Oregon -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:foundation-list- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dave Neary Sent: Friday, February 16, 2007 9:13 AM To: Foundation-List Subject: Mellon awards update Hi, A long time ago, I put out a call for Mellon award submissions - Federico answered the call, and we were candidates. However, other people put a lot of thought into theirs and when the winners were announced, it's unsurprising that universities grab all the prizes: http://rit.mellon.org/awards/matcpressrelease.pdf/ To complete with this, we would need to come up with a concrete proposal for how we would spend $100,000 on research development in a major area like accessibility, education or the web. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Neary [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ 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
freedesktop.org: SPI Associated Project
As many of you know freedesktop.org is a collaboration zone for open software projects working on interoperability and shared technology for X Window System desktops. Among others, freedesktop.org provides hosting for X.org, Mesa GL, DBUS, HAL, Portland and a large number of other software components and desktop related specifications. Logistically freedesktop.org is able to provide this service thanks to donations of bandwidth and hardware from various sponsors, including Google, HP and Portland State University. Unfortunately the legal structure to handle these donations is not the best at the moment. To improve this situation Software in the Public Interest (SPI) has been contacted. SPI has been so kind to offer freedesktop.org to become a SPI Associated Project. This will give freedesktop.org all the benefits of a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization with a minimum of administrative overhead. It is our intention to accept SPI's offer and effectuate this change within the next few weeks. Apart from the legal implications this is not expected to result in any changes to the operation of freedesktop.org. Havoc Pennington, Keith Packard, Waldo Bastian ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
