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[XML-DEV Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message] Re: (Second) Last Call for XPointer 1.0
 (see Ben peek out of the woodwork on an important issue) Y'know, as somebody who's implementing an open source XLink/XPointer-inclusive product, I have say that Sun can come and get me, if they're so inclined. My attorneys agree that their patent in this regard is unsupportable, at about the same level as Microsoft's much-reviled patent on the concept of stylesheets. I have to disagree with Tim's assertion that this patent would keep -any- players from making XPointer implementations, because by the same logic, they'd have to attack XPath and XSLT as well. They're built on the same basis and nearly as offense to the patent. We all know that XPath and XSLT have been implemented, even though the patent would obviously apply to that as well. What about the XML Querying efforts? Should we expect those to be affected as well? Is Sun going to sue everybody who's implemented those standards, too? I doubt it. Perhaps the big companies with the massive, anal retentive legal teams will shy away from implementation, but that hasn't stopped them from working with stylesheets, despite Microsoft's (as yet) unchallenged patent in the area. I expect Sun's patent will be ignored, just as Microsoft's was. However, I fully intend to send mail to Sun's legal department via the links Eve has so thoughtfully provided, and I encourage you all to to do the same. I think Sun will get the message -- and if not, they can sue me, and a whole bunch of other folks. I rather expect they'd lose. --->Ben Trafford 
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