Re: Generating PDFs with Ada

["Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)" <yannick_duchene@yahoo.fr>]

Le Tue, 11 Jan 2011 21:47:58 +0100, Adam Beneschan <adam@irvine.com> a  
écrit:
> So what?  Does "being a proponent of Ada" necessarily imply "being a
> proponent of users ditching all their proprietary, non-ISO, non-open
> stuff and changing their entire computing environment to fit some
> 'openness' paradigm"?  I sure don't see it.
Yes.

> http://www.microsoft.com/interop/docs/officebinaryformats.mspx
Good, this leads me to this:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff381461.aspx
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd208104.aspx

Mmmh, this, should not be missed:
> Microsoft Open Specification Promise
> Published: September 12, 2006 | Updated: February 1, 2007
> --
> Microsoft irrevocably promises not to assert any Microsoft Necessary
> Claims against you for making, using, selling, offering for sale,
> importing or distributing any implementation to the extent it
> conforms to a Covered Specification (“Covered Implementation”),
> subject to the following. This is a personal promise directly from
> Microsoft to you, and you acknowledge as a condition of benefiting
> from it that no Microsoft rights are received from suppliers,
> distributors, or otherwise in connection with this promise. If you
> file, maintain or voluntarily participate in a patent infringement
> lawsuit against a Microsoft implementation of such Covered
> Specification, then this personal promise does not apply [...]
Source: http://www.microsoft.com/interop/osp/default.mspx

In less words, if you want to be friend with MS, you have to not sue them  
;)


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