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From: Matt Sergeant <matt@s...> To: Wendell Piez <wapiez@m...> > > In today's Washington Post ... > > Ballmer hopes to build Microsoft's new identity partly around a > > computing language known as XML. Invented several years ago by two > > Microsoft technologists, >> Does this misrepresentation matter? It scares me. > I very much doubt they do believe that. This is probably just yet another > journalist not doing his research. Or perhaps the history is about to repeat itself. Remember Håkon Wium Lie? It was only a year ago that Patent No. 5,860,073 was granted to Microsoft for their invention of CSS (*). Perhaps Ballmer himself implied/claimed inventing of XML by two Microsoft technologists in his "frank interview". Perhaps Microsoft has already filed a patent application. ?? (*) http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/1999Mar/0016.html /e *************************************************************************** This is xml-dev, the mailing list for XML developers. To unsubscribe, mailto:majordomo@x...&BODY=unsubscribe%20xml-dev List archives are available at http://xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ ***************************************************************************
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