From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,70b1ec259f5108f7 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2004-01-24 07:24:17 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail From: cyberlync@yahoo.com (Eric Merritt) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada, XML and M$ Patents Date: 24 Jan 2004 07:24:16 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <19130ae.0401240724.7f46d079@posting.google.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: 4.18.166.227 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1074957857 10998 127.0.0.1 (24 Jan 2004 15:24:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2004 15:24:17 +0000 (UTC) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:4772 Date: 2004-01-24T07:24:16-08:00 List-Id: Preben Randhol wrote in message news:... > On 2004-01-24, Preben Randhol 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.