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Re: Another Microsoft XML patent

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• Subject: Re: Another Microsoft XML patent
• From: David Lyon <david.lyon@c...>
• Date: Sun, 5 Jun 2005 09:24:14 -0400
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My misguided guess is that it probably has to do
with the UML diagrams we all used to draw on
the board when designing systems.

Somebody obviously didn't get invited to the
design meeting, got [expletive deleted] off, and patented the 
what Yourdon invented and showed us all how
to do.

Unless I am mistaken, how can it be anything
other than a vindictive patent?

A shape? drawn since the beginning of mankind
now patented... one has to ask if there is some
sort of corruption of the patents office happening
here... 

no wonder so much software development is
going to parts of the world where people are
safe from prosecution. It's just getting less safe 
to write any code anymore in any western country.

funny though - it just drives developer jobs to
countries that pirate all their software - because 
they are the only places safe that it is safe to 
write software.

and in our developed countries - it's almost
impossible to work safely anymore.

and we sit here and wonder why all the
job losses?


On Sat, 4 Jun 2005 1:40 pm, Michael Kay wrote:
> What on earth is the "shape" of an object instance?
>
> Michael Kay
> http://www.saxonica.com/
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Bob Foster [mailto:bob@o...]
> > Sent: 04 June 2005 17:02
> > To: xml-dev@l...
> > Subject:  Another Microsoft XML patent
> >
> > Noted without comment:
> >
> > http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HIT
> > OFF&p=1&u=/netahtml/search-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=pt
> > xt&s1=microsoft.ASNM.&s2=xml.ABST.&OS=AN/microsoft+AND+ABST/xm
> > l&RS=AN/microsoft+AND+ABST/xml
> >
> > Bob Foster
> >
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