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OOXML approved as an ISO standard

OOXML approved as an ISO standard

Posted Apr 2, 2008 14:32 UTC (Wed) by kh (subscriber, #19413)
In reply to: OOXML approved as an ISO standard by purslow
Parent article: OOXML approved as an ISO standard

Here is one example, or maybe you thinking more along the lines of Kerberos?

And that does not even get into patent issues.

Quoting: "17. Not content with Microsoft's corruption of the Kerberos standard, Microsoft has filed for a patent on its proprietary version. Consequently, not only will Microsoft products fail to interoperate with non-Microsoft products (because of the modification), but Microsoft will not allow anyone else to use its version unless they purchase a license from Microsoft."

I think you can try to license Microsoft's Kerberos patents from this page.

I don't think there is any silver lining in this cloud.


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