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1. Comment - Microsoft to Support OpenDocument

   (Jul 6, 2006 - 11:22 AM)

   "MS has published a legal document promising not to sue/charge implementors of OpenXML in free software."
   
   What about competitors using those patented XML implementations?

2. Comment - Microsoft to Support OpenDocument

   (Jul 6, 2006 - 6:56 AM)

   Microsoft XML patent portfolio is growing. How will it be used?
   
   Microsoft just paid the renewal fee (23-06-2006) for an XML patent application that is very broad. It is unclear how delegations in ISO handle patent applications during the standardisation process.
   
   http://gauss.ffii.org/PatentView/EP1271339
   
   EP1271339 - Method for generic object oriented description of structured data (GDL)
   
   Claim 1.
   A method for use in a computing system for organizing and describing information pertaining to one or more subjects comprising:
   
   - providing a source file, said source file including a plurality of entries characterizing the subject, wherein said entries are an instantiation of an inheritance-based schema and conform to a predefined meta-language syntax;
   
   - providing a schema, said schema comprising one or more families of templates, each template defining one or more properties of a set of entries, the templates in each family related by inheritance;
   
   - associating one or more entries with an appropriate template of a family, thereby allowing such entries to be also associated with other ancestral templates in the same family.
   http://gauss.ffii.org/PatentView/EP1271339