Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on September 23, 2005 03:42 AM
Along with implementing support for the OpenDocument format, Microsoft could have chosen to relenquish it's ridiculous patent claims on the Office 12 format. IIRC, Massachusetts originally included these formats among the allowed standards until it discovered that they were "open" in name only. Even PDF, another acceptable format, is patent encumbered and very much so. Unlike Microsoft, Adobe has taken the positive steps of licensing its PDF patents under reasonable and royalty-free terms for anyone implementing the PDF "standard".
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on September 23, 2005 03:42 AM#