Microsoft Challenges Massachusetts on Open-Format Plan (eWeek)

Microsoft Challenges Massachusetts on Open-Format Plan (eWeek)

Posted Sep 17, 2005 5:26 UTC (Sat) by rqosa (guest, #24136)
In reply to: Microsoft Challenges Massachusetts on Open-Format Plan (eWeek) by tzafrir
Parent article: Microsoft Challenges Massachusetts on Open-Format Plan (eWeek)

By what law could they actually enforce a license on a file format? Also, if they could do so, why haven't they already sued the developers of OpenOffice and other projects with import filters for their file formats?

I doubt that Microsoft's claims of having "intellectual property rights" over their file formats are no more true than, for example, SCO's claim to the ELF executable format.

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