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Re: Another Microsoft XML patent

• To: Michael Kay <mike@s...>
• Subject: Re: Another Microsoft XML patent
• From: "M. David Peterson" <m.david.x2x2x@g...>
• Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2005 20:23:03 -0600
• Cc: Alan Gutierrez <alan-xml-dev@e...>, Michael Champion <michaelc.champion@g...>, xml-dev@l...
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• Reply-to: "M. David Peterson" <m.david.x2x2x@g...>

While I've been away for basically the last two days I am just coming
back to this.  Can I just say this is some of the most interesting
reading I've had the pleasure to read in a very long time!  I am just
through some of the first few follow-ups to some of my earlier posts
and so far have found Alan Gutierrez has provided some excellent
follow-up in regards to things I had never really considered. 
Excellent!  Whats the point in getting involved with an argument if
youre not willing to listen to others view points and adjust/change
you're own when someone has presented some excellent follow-up?  I'm
listening and adjusting as we speak :)

On 6/7/05, Michael Kay <mike@s...> wrote:
> > > I've heard all this rhetoric about Big Evil Co shutting down lone
> > > practicioners with their bogus patents, but nobody has cited a
> > > single real case.
> 
> I know of a real case, and it's very much in the XML field, where the guy
> who actually invented an idea (a sole practitioner) was prevented from
> exploiting it by a big company that copied the idea and patented it. I was
> told the story in confidence and I assume the details have not come into the
> open because of an out-of-court settlement.
> 
> Michael Kay
> http://www.saxonica.com/
> 
> 
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M. David Peterson
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