Altova Mailing List Archives>Archive Index >comp.text.xml Archive Home >Recent entries >Thread Prev - Re: Is there a patent on XML itself? >Thread Next - Re: Is there a patent on XML itself? Re: Is there a patent on XML itself?To: NULL Date: 4/6/2007 10:31:00 AM In article <ev56e0$2c9p$1@p...>, richard@c... says... > Well, you might be able to trademark the name to prevent them from > claiming that it's a version of it, but I don't think you can - or > should be able to - stop people from writing software that implements > extensions to your standard. Then you would be indisagreement with the Open Source Initiative and most of the experts on the open standards field. Only by protecting a standard can it ever be a "standard" at all. Fragmentation is what killed UNIX. Linus Torvold's tight rein on what can be considered part of the kernal of Linux is what makes it successful. | ||||||
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