[NCLUG-DISCUSS] ms patenting xml ??

[bill ehlert]

Microsoft Justifies Its XML Patent Moves

By Mary Jo Foley, Microsoft Watch 
January 24, 2004   


Microsoft watchers are questioning yet again
Microsoft's intentions toward XML, the Worldwide
Web Consortium (W3C) Extensible Markup Language
standard.

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http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,4149,1460095,00.asp


**  i really don't understand this.

    but i have the feeling it's a  Bad Thing
    for open-source software


 


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