From: cyberlync@yahoo.com (Eric Merritt)
Subject: Re: Ada, XML and M$ Patents
Date: 24 Jan 2004 07:24:16 -0800
Date: 2004-01-24T07:24:16-08:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <19130ae.0401240724.7f46d079@posting.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: slrnc14kq6.r0.randhol+valid_for_reply_from_news@k-083152.nt.ntnu.no
Preben Randhol <randhol+valid_for_reply_from_news@pvv.org> wrote in message news:<slrnc14kq6.r0.randhol+valid_for_reply_from_news@k-083152.nt.ntnu.no>...
> On 2004-01-24, Preben Randhol <randhol+valid_for_reply_from_news@pvv.org> wrote:
> > Yet another brain-dead patent that is only to hinder progress
> >
> > http://news.com.com/2100-1013_3-5146581.html?tag=nefd_top
> >
>
> Oops hit send before I finished.
>
> What I wanted to say was that I bet that soon there will be a patent on
> making GUI via XML schemas etc...
Lets hope not. This is, however, par for the course at Microsoft. Its
a filing for a patent in New Zealand and Europe we can always hope
that those patent offices are less braindead then the one in the US.
On a side note, patent the concept of gui generation via an XML
descriptor would be a hard one to enforce I think. There have been
open source projects directed at this almost since the avent of xml. I
wouldn't doubt there there are more then a few earlier projects that
targeted sgml instead of xml. It could also probably be argued that
HTML itself is prior art.
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2004-01-24 11:12 Ada, XML and M$ Patents Preben Randhol
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