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[News] 'Open' XML Licensing Gotchas

Analyzing the Microsoft Office Open XML License

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| In short, Microsoft promises not to sue you for using the Microsoft
| Office Open XML formats in your software. But this promise only
| applies to patents Microsoft may have in the explicit parts of the
| Microsoft Office Open XML specification and which are described in
| detail there. It would not cover those parts essential to
| implementation which are merely referenced in the specification
| and lying outside the specification. See the language, "only the
| required portions of the...specification", emphasized below.
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http://fussnotes.typepad.com/plexnex/2007/01/analyzing_the_m.html

So it's not just the technical problem with this "DNA sequence" that's called
a "standard". Bob Sutor of IBM calls it:

"Lock-in lives on in a new disguise: a lock-in wolf in standards clothing."

http://www.sutor.com/newsite/blog-open/?p=1342

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