Re: GUI

["Robert C. Leif" <rleif@rleif.com>]

The existence of Microsoft's licenses is exactly why, I stated to use World
Wide Web Consortium (W3C) standards.  Microsoft has NOT, as far as I have
seen, stated that you cannot import or use types or elements from their
schema for an Office or one of their other products add-on.  It is quite
reasonable that Microsoft would not want you to develop competitive products
based on their intellectual property.  W3C standards are operating system
independent and W3C is making a very strong effort to make sure that they do
not contain proprietary intellectual property.  Therefore, W3C is a better
source of standards than either Microsoft or Sun and much less restrictive
than the Free Software Foundation. 

Bob Leif
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Message: 8
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 18:58:10 +0000 (UTC)
From: Georg Bauhaus <sb463ba@l1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de>
Subject: Re: GUI was Re: why Ada is so unpopular ?
To: comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org
Message-ID: <bujto2$l3l$2@a1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de>

Robert C. Leif <rleif@rleif.com> wrote:
:   In fact, a large part of Microsoft's next operating system
: is in XML.

Have you noted the licenses (aka precautionary infringement of patent
threatening letters :) they offer for their XML Schemata?
(Doesn't mean that a common standardised way of declaring your
window's resource file section (and probably more) in XML is
a Bad Thing.)


-- Georg