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On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 10:49:41AM -0600, Bullard, Claude L (Len) wrote: > Frankly, it may be a case as Trafford says where > the industry ignores the patent rather than going > to the trouble and expense of contesting it. The > W3C may not be able to ignore it. The result is > the same: XPointer is DOA. Why should W3C differ from the industry in this case ? If everybody consider the claim invalid, why should it be W3C which would go through the expensive action of fighting it if the patent itself if moot ? > The next problem would be, can everyone live with > ignoring XPointer or Sun or both? As a free software implementor, I read Sun's terms and while I disagree with the fact that they were granted this patent, their condition were fine by me. It is very clear that they cannot sue me for my libxml XPointer implementation. You may have others needs, but for XPointer implementation itself the term emitted by sun were fine. What point is blocking you ? Now, if you want to implement something different than XPointer you may have issues with Sun's patent, but this must not block XPointer, right ? Now one third way would be to have a legal advice on whether the patent would *actually* cover any XML resource. The wording excerpt which was propagated here clearly stated that the claim was linked to HTML usage. And XPointer do not target HTML, so is this whole story moot because it's a non problem ? Is defining a fragment identifier syntax able to locate string in a markup based resource something we have to forget about until this Patent expires ? If this is the conclusion of this discussion, this is depressing !!! (and sorry there is *no* excuses to the current policy of the Patent Office, as Alan Cox puts it: "Selling Monopoly right to Common Sense for 25 Years" http://www.thinkgeek.com/images/geekgod-cox-largeview.jpg ). Daniel -- Daniel Veillard | Red Hat Network http://redhat.com/products/network/ daniel@v... | libxml Gnome XML toolkit http://xmlsoft.org/ http://veillard.com/ | Rpmfind RPM search engine http://rpmfind.net/
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