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DATE | 2003-11-17 |
FROM | David Sugar
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SUBJECT | Re: [hangout] A much more complete analysis of the msn search eng ine...
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From owner-hangout-desteny-at-mrbrklyn.com Mon Nov 17 13:37:04 2003 Received: from www2.mrbrklyn.com (LOCALHOST [127.0.0.1]) by mrbrklyn.com (8.12.3/8.11.2/SuSE Linux 8.11.1-0.5) with ESMTP id hAHIb4jk023341 for ; Mon, 17 Nov 2003 13:37:04 -0500 Received: (from mdom-at-localhost) by www2.mrbrklyn.com (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id hAHIb4iS023340 for hangout-desteny; Mon, 17 Nov 2003 13:37:04 -0500 X-Authentication-Warning: www2.mrbrklyn.com: mdom set sender to owner-hangout-at-www2.mrbrklyn.com using -f Received: from localhost.bayonne.dyndns.org (pool-141-153-146-157.mad.east.verizon.net [141.153.146.157]) by mrbrklyn.com (8.12.3/8.11.2/SuSE Linux 8.11.1-0.5) with ESMTP id hAHIb3jk023335 for ; Mon, 17 Nov 2003 13:37:03 -0500 Received: from 192.168.1.103 ([192.168.1.103]) by localhost.bayonne.dyndns.org (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id hAHKdB3Z018602; Mon, 17 Nov 2003 15:39:11 -0500 From: David Sugar To: Michael Richardson , hangout-at-nylxs.com Subject: Re: [hangout] A much more complete analysis of the msn search eng ine... Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2003 13:54:56 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.3 References: <069D219A1FFED611983300A0C9A02A5612AD41-at-NYCSV1> In-Reply-To: <069D219A1FFED611983300A0C9A02A5612AD41-at-NYCSV1> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200311171354.57023.dyfet-at-ostel.com> Sender: owner-hangout-at-mrbrklyn.com Precedence: bulk Reply-To: David Sugar List: New Yorker GNU Linux Scene Admin: To unsubscribe send unsubscribe name-at-domian.com in the body to hangout-request-at-www2.mrbrklyn.com X-Keywords: X-UID: 29318 Status: RO Content-Length: 1964 Lines: 39
On Monday 17 November 2003 11:47 am, Michael Richardson wrote: > The XML data is open and interchangeable with Microsoft XML.
See "http://www.microsoft.com/mscorp/ip/format/xmlpatentlicense.asp" and consider the implications on an XML data format that has a patent license that states:
"Microsoft may have patents and/or patent applications that are necessary for you to license in order to make, sell, or distribute software programs that read or write files that comply with the Microsoft specifications for the Office Schemas."
I do know that this would directly contravene EU competition law, from the European Union Treaty articles 81 & 82, and the original Treaty of Rome, articles 85 and 86 where used or required by (European) government agencies, as it would enable one ("market monopy", hence application of 82/86) vendor to select and control what other vendor's such agencies may freely contract with to provide interoperable services, products, clients to view published government documents, etc, and under what terms of sale or license vendors may be permitted or excluded from contracting.
As such I do not consider it just an immoral action, but a clearly illegal one as well. This applies equally well in the US, although the problem here is that it would be a matter of challenging individual solicitations, each of which would have to be separately challenged by individual parties directly who each would have to have direct legal standing, where the EU has a more centralized mechanism for dealing with such abuse that is far more approachable.
Of course, this drifts away from the VERY relevant XBOX and Digital Restriction Management issues directly (although is related), but into another and more specific area I had thought about for awhile now.
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