MS-Sun agreement re:OO.org

Thomas Charron twaffle at gmail.com
Thu Sep 16 17:57:01 EDT 2004


> Absolutely.
> A while back MS published their XML schemas for Word and other MS-Office
> documents with licensing that requires all implementors to pay royalties
> to use those schemas.
> This means MS can still sue OpenOffice(OO) (or get an injunction)
> when/if OO implements those MS-Office XML schemas.

  Unless, of course, they simply implement it by, oh, say, l.ooking at
the XML data itself without actually LOOKING at the schema..  But
that'd be one of those ugly situations..



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