RE: GNOME Foundation Board Meeting Minutes :: 7/6/07

["Bastian, Waldo" <waldo bastian intel com>]

Richard,

In relation to Hubert's comment I'm interested to hear your view on the
Microsoft Open Specification Promise (OSP) that Microsoft applies to
OOXML since last October. See
http://www.microsoft.com/interop/osp/default.mspx 

Cheers,
Waldo
 
Intel Corporation - Platform Software Engineering, UMG - Hillsboro,
Oregon

-----Original Message-----
From: foundation-list-bounces gnome org
[mailto:foundation-list-bounces gnome org] On Behalf Of Hubert Figuiere
Sent: Monday, June 11, 2007 9:50 AM
To: rms gnu org
Cc: foundation-list gnome org
Subject: Re: GNOME Foundation Board Meeting Minutes :: 7/6/07

Richard Stallman wrote:
> However, it may be true that we don't have much of a choice in this
> matter.  Certain aspects of OOXML are patented by Microsoft, in the US
> and some other countries.  Microsoft offers a gratis patent license,
> on conditions that do not allow free implementations.  To change OOXML
> enough that we could distribute an implementation of it in the US
> would be a very big change.
> 
> See http://gnu.org/philosophy/microsoft-new-monopoly.html.

Richard,

Can you quote your sources when you say that the patent grant from
Microsoft does not cover free software implementation?

The link above only talks about XPS which is NOT part of the OpenXML
specification.


Hub
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