Six questions on OOXML [LWN.net]

The FSF Europe has posted six questions on Microsoft's "Open Office XML" format which, they believe, any agency pondering standardizing on that format should be able to answer. "MS-OOXML is accompanied by an unusually complex and narrow 'covenant not to sue' instead of the typical patent grant. Because of its complexity, it does not seem clear how much protection from prosecution for compatibility it will truly provide... Does your national standardisation body have its own, independent legal analysis about the exact nature of the grant to certify whether it truly covers the full spectrum of all possible MS-OOXML implementations?"

(Log in to post comments)