jonathon wrote:
Mathias Bauer wrote:
completely they do not exaggerate. We hope to have filters with a good
quality in the OOo 3.0 release (Beta in spring next year).
Who is going to indemnify the OOo users for the patent
violations that an OOXML filer for OOo will have? [At least
five microsoft patents cover the docx specification.
In the unlikely event that they did pursue a user, they will
automatically draw in larger entities such as SUN and probably IBM.
Also, Novell does OOo development and they have a "get out of jail free"
card from MS, so certainly they would have to exempt all people that
used anything touched by Novell.
The SCO to Linux law suits were likely pushed by MS. The latest round of
threats and such are more to scare larger companies away from OOo that
individual users. After all, what would MS be able to extract from me
even if they won? $100 million dollars? Nope, not from a home user. Even
if they complained about a Patent portfolio, IBM has a larger one and MS
has more to lose on that front.
It does not mean that one morning, someone at MS will not wake up, and
do something really really stupid (some people just roughed up and
arrested a 70 year old woman for not watering her lawn, a very
interesting story... The officer was released the same day on
administrative leave and the women was taken home by a very polite
policeman) Ultimately, there is not a single writer or quoted expert who
has ever entertained that as even a remote possibility. They want to
make certain that GM, Ford, AT&T, and the entire state of Mass do not
use OOo. That is their desire.
--
Andrew Pitonyak
My Macro Document: http://www.pitonyak.org/AndrewMacro.odt
My Book: http://www.hentzenwerke.com/catalog/oome.htm
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