[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ganesha Bhaskara wrote:
Moty wrote:
Release date Jun 27 2008.
See http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc313153.aspx for the
full spec (553 pages !)
an excerpt from http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc313153.aspx
*Patents*. Microsoft has patents that may cover your implementations
of the formats. Neither this notice nor Microsoft's delivery of the
documentation grants any licenses under those or any other Microsoft
patents. However, the formats may be covered by Microsoft's Open
Specification Promise (available here:
http://www.microsoft.com/interop/osp
<http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=114384>). If you would prefer
a written license, or if the formats are not covered by the OSP,
patent licenses are available by contacting [EMAIL PROTECTED]
<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Could somebody elaborate what this means ........ msft MAY have
patents, format MAY be covered under Microsoft's Open Specification
Promise (available here: http://www.microsoft.com/interop/osp
<http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=114384>).
How do developers and businesses deal with this uncertainty ?
-G
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OR M$ may have IP included from others, therefore would not fully
release it; it may become public knowledge that they also use IP from
other patents. Keep you too scared to ask if you contravene, even too
intimidated to try to use it, in stead of stating what exactly they
regard as patented. It's all intentionally kept open to interpretation
by their legal office ...
Al
Does this make MSFT's patent position MUCH stronger ? When the document
format was closed, (legally challengeable) reverse engineering for
interoperability argument could be made for as far as patents were
concerned. Now that the .doc spec is open legally interoperability is a
non-issue unless proved otherwise. Does this put MSFT is a stronger
position to enforce its office file format related patents ?
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