Re: [ubl-dev] Patent encumberances as they apply to UBL?

[Duane Nickull <dnickull@adobe.com>]

It is stuff  like this that someone will use as an excuse to invent the 
replacement for XML.

<nervous_laugh>hehehe</nervous_laugh>

Whoops - I just used angle brackets.  Better cough up some $$$..

D

David Lyon wrote:

>On Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:19 am, David Webber (XML) wrote:
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>>Actually you have to persist <free speech>my opinion</free speech>
>>from a programming language memory object in a document
>>presentation into a storage media using XML.
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>That's something I have been doing since before 2001...
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>now it is illegal, without written permission from ms..
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>>So technically you are not infringing - and especially if like me you
>>are typing this in Outlook or Outlook Express ; -)
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>I'm not using an Outlook product, so therefore I am..
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>how can everybody be expected to hand type xml into
>Outlook or Outlook Express? isn't that a major step backward?
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>>Microsoft clearly got the patent as a defense against crazies trying
>>to patent the XML mechanisms in MS Word....
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>In the process, lock every body else out from using an
>what was an "open" standard...
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>This is a restriction on freedom of speech. It's like saying
>that you can hand-write documents, but not use a printing
>press because some big company saw a printing press
>in their travels and has patented it 400 years after it's
>original invention.
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>it's a way to stop the production of all machine
>based based xml systems....
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>now, if I am not mistaken, we must all now get
>written permission from microsoft to keep using
>our UBL sytems...
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>I'm not being paranoid... 
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>I'm just trying to follow International law as it
>is being dictated... and it seems to be getting
>worse and worse every day.
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>This is really bad...
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