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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Re: MS filters
From:       Matthew Woehlke <mw_triad () users ! sourceforge ! net>
Date:       2008-03-13 21:41:19
Message-ID: frc720$576$1 () ger ! gmane ! org
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Sebastian Sauer wrote:
> On Thursday 13 March 2008, Matthew Woehlke wrote:
>> (And MSOOXML is rumored to be a patent minefield. I hope the people
>> thinking about implementing it are keeping this in mind...)
> 
> To avoid anything that may covered by a software-patent would result in 
> stopping to develop software in general.

True. Unfortunately :-(.

> Take it serious, fight against it 
> but don't accept it and don't give up.

I /think/ that's a sentiment I agree with, but I'm not sure what "it" 
you are referring to.

Please note that on this topic I wasn't (not at the moment, anyway) 
advocating "we shouldn't implement this"*, just asking that people 
wouldn't "eat the Microsoft Fruit" without considering the dangers.

(*Though I certainly agree with Cyrille that we should by no means 
implement it /yet/. Hopefully it will die after March and go down in 
history as Microsoft's last attempt at their usual tactics that finally 
made the world say "enough!" ;-) But legal issues aside, it's surely a 
moving target at the moment.)

-- 
Matthew
/bin/sh -- still Bourne on Solaris (and still not POSIX compliant)

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