[XML-DEV Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message] RE: Copyrighting schemas, Hailstorm
They can do that and we can write schemas just as fast that run just as well on their technology. Note the beginnings of the terminology wars in that what Microsoft calls orchestration, IBM calls choreography. And so it will go like different parts of the local Arts Council groups fighting for control of the civic stage: little fish acting like big fish, except this is big fish acting like little fish. Gotta love it. Such copyrights will ensure the schemas will have strong competitors. They may be doing us a favor. Len http://www.mp3.com/LenBullard Ekam sat.h, Vipraah bahudhaa vadanti. Daamyata. Datta. Dayadhvam.h -----Original Message----- From: Simon St.Laurent [mailto:simonstl@s...] Clay Shirky has an article on Hailstorm up at: http://www.openp2p.com/pub/a/p2p/2001/05/30/hailstorm.html Shirky raises copyright and control as a central issue in Microsoft's Hailstorm strategy: >This is the most audacious aspect of HailStorm, and the core of the >describe-and-defend strategy. Microsoft wants to create a schema which >describes all possible user transactions, and then copyright that >schema, in order to create and manage the ontology of life on the >Internet. In HailStorm as it was described, all entities, methods, and >transactions will be defined and mediated by Microsoft or >Microsoft-licensed developers, with Microsoft acting as a kind of >arbiter of descriptions of electronic reality: We've had discussions of whether copyrighting a schema has any implications for control. I can definitely see limitations on derived works, which strikes me as unfortunate, but I'd really like to have a clearer explanation from someone as to how intellectual property and XML interact in the legal world... ------------------------------------------------------------------ The xml-dev list is sponsored by XML.org, an initiative of OASIS <http://www.oasis-open.org> The list archives are at http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ To unsubscribe from this elist send a message with the single word "unsubscribe" in the body to: xml-dev-request@l...
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