Does this affect OO.o?
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| theboomboomcars Aug 12, 2009 7:12 PM EDT |
It seems if this affects OOXML it would also affect ODF. |
| bigg Aug 12, 2009 8:08 PM EDT |
I imagine that it would to the extent that OOo reads and writes OOXML. The more important question is whether the patent will hold up in another court. The fruit cake parading as a judge in this case sides with anything that looks like a patent. |
| dinotrac Aug 13, 2009 6:46 AM EDT |
From the (scanty) description of the claim, it sounds like OOo could be vulnerable as well. Note that the patent predates OOXML and is not OOXML specific. |
| jezuch Aug 13, 2009 9:01 AM EDT |
Quoting:The fruit cake parading as a judge in this case sides with anything that looks like a patent. East Texas; 'nuff said. |
| theboomboomcars Aug 13, 2009 9:04 AM EDT |
I read some of the comments on the Dailytech article and some people were saying that CSS would also fall under this patent and that CSS is from the 70s. If that is the case why didn't MS use it in their defence? |
| jacog Aug 13, 2009 9:47 AM EDT |
"why didn't MS use it in their defence" If Microsoft use anything like that in their defense, they are pretty much admitting that their own patent extortion efforts are a load of poo. It's a weird situation this puts them in. |
| hkwint Aug 13, 2009 11:49 AM EDT |
The patent mentions SGML, but not XML; kinda funny. |
| dinotrac Aug 13, 2009 10:17 PM EDT |
Patent was granted in 1998, and was probably applied for at least a year, maybe more, before that. The folks drafting the application certainly began in 1996 at the latest. XML was developed between 1996 and 1998, so, in the timeline of this patent, there really wasn't any XML to mention. |
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