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Re: Is there a patent on XML itself?

From: Grant Robertson <bogus@-----.------->
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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