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Re: Is there a patent on XML itself?

From: richard@------.--.--.-- (------- -----)
To: NULL
Date: 4/6/2007 11:31:00 PM

In article <461648ff$1@kcnews01>,
Joseph Kesselman  <keshlam-nospam@c...> wrote:

>> Well, you might be able to trademark the name to prevent them from
>> claiming that it's a version of it

>Which is what Sun did with Java; they enforced that against Microsoft 
>when the MS version diverged too strongly from the spec.

This works once the brand is sufficiently successful.  Microsoft
could have diverged as much as they liked so long as they didn't
call it Java, but they evidently calculated that that wouldn't do
them any good.

-- Richard
-- 
"Consideration shall be given to the need for as many as 32 characters
in some alphabets" - X3.4, 1963.


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