Re: Microsoft patents XML based script automation?

2004-02-17 Thread Tetsuya Kitahata
On Sat, 14 Feb 2004 09:08:59 + robert burrell donkin wrote: software patents encourage innovation? don't make me laugh! bitter-laughterhahaha/bitter-laughter Let's laugh! Join in the laughter! .. singing Yellow *Submarine* :)

Re: Microsoft patents XML based script automation?

2004-02-14 Thread robert burrell donkin
On 13 Feb 2004, at 07:28, Conor MacNeill wrote: On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 01:19:40 -0500, Noel J. Bergman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: See: http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3312091 Patent: http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2Sect2=HITOFFu=/ netahtm

Microsoft patents XML based script automation?

2004-02-13 Thread Noel J. Bergman
See: http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3312091 Patent: http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2Sect2=HITOFFu=/netahtm l/search-adv.htmr=9p=1f=Gl=50d=ptxtS1=Microsoft.ASNM.OS=AN/Microsoft RS=AN/Microsoft Does anyone have any idea how this would effect Ant, Maven,

Re: Microsoft patents XML based script automation?

2004-02-13 Thread Conor MacNeill
On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 01:19:40 -0500, Noel J. Bergman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: See: http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3312091 Patent: http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2Sect2=HITOFFu=/netahtm l/search-adv.htmr=9p=1f=Gl=50d=ptxtS1=Microsoft.ASNM.OS=AN/Microsoft

Re: Microsoft patents XML based script automation?

2004-02-13 Thread Justin Erenkrantz
--On Friday, February 13, 2004 6:28 PM +1100 Conor MacNeill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It is hard to see Ant being affected as its publication precedes the filing date for the patent, if that is relevant. Not sure about the other projects. FWIW, in the US, it is first to invent not first to file.

Re: Microsoft patents XML based script automation?

2004-02-13 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
Le Vendredi, 13 fév 2004, à 07:19 Europe/Zurich, Noel J. Bergman a écrit : See: http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3312091 ... Does anyone have any idea how this would effect Ant, Maven, Jelly, JSP and other technologies that use XML to describe scripting?... Doesn't prior art

RE: Microsoft patents XML based script automation?

2004-02-13 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Doesn't prior art invalidate such patents? Systems, methods and data structures for encompassing scripts written in one or more scripting languages in a single file does not sound *that* innovative here ;-) Nothing about it sounds innovative. In terms of prior art, what about