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List:       openoffice-discuss
Subject:    Re: [discuss] XML/Word-processing Patent in NZ
From:       Graham Lauder <yorick () xtra ! co ! nz>
Date:       2005-03-15 11:04:52
Message-ID: 4236C154.7010904 () xtra ! co ! nz
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Marco Fioretti wrote:

> "In the New Zealand Herald, Adam Gifford has written an article blasting Microsoft \
> for burying the New Zealand Intellectual Property Office in paperwork. One example \
> is Patent 525484, accepted by the office and now open for objections until the end \
> of May, which says Microsoft invented and owns the process whereby a \
> word-processing document stored in a single XML file may be manipulated by \
> applications that understand XML." 
> Slashdot page:
> http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/05/03/15/0118201.shtml?tid=155&tid=109
> Original article:
> http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=5&ObjectID=10115247
> 
> Ciao,
> Marco
> 
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Someone else raised this on the list back when MS first registered the 
patent last year.  I made comment in support of doing something about it 
considering that OOo's file format is all about XML.

Our concerns however were met with deafening silence and a shrug or two.
Non-American so it seems it doesn't matter.

Thank god the NZ Open Source Society is going to fight it.
Maybe people would like to contribute to the fight fund.... yea right!

Yo


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