http://robertogaloppini.net/2008/02/21/microsoft-interoperability-microsoft-opens-up-its-data-formats-and-platforms/ “equally critical of proprietary and open source myths, advocating software choice beyond marketing and romanticism” Thu, 09 Feb 2012 21:25:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 http://robertogaloppini.net/2008/02/21/microsoft-interoperability-microsoft-opens-up-its-data-formats-and-platforms/comment-page-1/#comment-271813 Carlo Daffara Fri, 22 Feb 2008 10:37:04 +0000 http://robertogaloppini.net/2008/02/21/microsoft-interoperability-microsoft-opens-up-its-data-formats-and-platforms/#comment-271813 Many others have commented that this kind of announcements are being done with a certain regularity, and that the patent covenant are not extended to "commercial open source developers" (whatever that may means) but only for "noncommercial OSS developers". I have found much more interesting the announcement that Microsoft will provide a list of patents that cover specific API and technology, and this will provide a "navigation" across potentially infringing open source implementations, or the possibility for invalidation (by the identification of prior art, for example) of patents that cannot be circumvented. Many others have commented that this kind of announcements are being done with a certain regularity, and that the patent covenant are not extended to “commercial open source developers” (whatever that may means) but only for “noncommercial OSS developers”. I have found much more interesting the announcement that Microsoft will provide a list of patents that cover specific API and technology, and this will provide a “navigation” across potentially infringing open source implementations, or the possibility for invalidation (by the identification of prior art, for example) of patents that cannot be circumvented.

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