Does Microsoft have XML patents?

[Ramon F Herrera]

1) XML isn't code, it's a data markup convention.

When I got one of my multiple Computer Science degrees I was told:

- All code is data
- All data is code

-RFH

 

[keshlam]

When I got one of my multiple Computer Science degrees I was told:
- All code is data
- All data is code

With all due respect: c/is/can be treated as/ and I'll accept that;
otherwise no.

But this is philosophy, and the question was about law, neither of
which has much connection with reality...

 

[Hadron]

Sun has been show in courts to have illegally maintained monopoly power
on 2 continents. Sun also hasn't used every dirty, underhanded trick in
the book in order to stifle competition, either.

So just to get this straight : MS, Sun and Google are all dirty
monopolies now? Oh, and Novell.

Who DO you like btw?

 

[Hadron]

1) XML isn't code, it's a data markup convention.

2) MS has no ownership in XML itself.

3) MS (or someone else) might have patents applicable to specific uses
of XML, to the same extent that they might have patents applicable to
that applciation if its data was kept in some other representation.

In other words, XML shouldn't make you any more fearful than anything
else does. Or any less; your C/Java/C++ code might also infringe
someone's patent.

I think you should be more concerned with the XSLT.

 

[Rick]

So just to get this straight : MS, Sun and Google are all dirty
monopolies now? Oh, and Novell.

Who DO you like btw?

I made a typo above. Fixed:

Sun hasn't been shown in courts to have illegally maintained monopoly
power on 2 continents. Sun also hasn't used every dirty, underhanded
trick in the book in order to stifle competition, either.

I never said Sun and Google were dirty monopolies.

 

[Joseph Kesselman]

I think you should be more concerned with the XSLT.

Don't see why...

 

[Roy Schestowitz]

____/ Joseph Kesselman on Wednesday 02 January 2008 14:19 : \____

Don't see why...

Neither can 'Hadron'. He wanted to make a witty remark by mentioning an
acronym.

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