FUD ? Non, realite. Les 2 formats sont dans le meme bateau niveau protection contre les brevets, alors si c'est du FUD ca l'est vis-a-vis de Sun ET de MS.
On a first read, this seems pretty modest, and it will be quite interesting to see the reactions that the new language draws. If a given specification is not well detailed and will need lots of work in the future, then the pledge will only work well for so long as Microsoft stays involved with that standard. More significantly, the pledge only relates to "compliant" implementations, which does run afoul of the open source right to change anything. From a standards point of view, that serves a purpose, as it furthers the spread of interoperable implementations, which is what standards are all about. That works well from that perspective, but may leave some open source advocates less happy. Still, nearly all standards obligations are so limited, so to the extent that this limitation is regarded as unfortunate, the same objection could be made against nearly other vendor as well.
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Be that as it may, I think that this move should be greeted with approval, and that Microsoft deserves to be congratulated for this action. I hope that the standards affected will only be the first of many that Microsoft, and hopefully other patent owners as well, benefit with similar pledges.
Marrant quand meme, parmis les gens qui considerent OSP comme compatible GPL ca nous fait :
- Avocat de Redhat, avocat
- Larry Rosen, avocat
- Andy Updegrove , avocat
[^] # Re: T'as raison
Posté par pasBill pasGates . En réponse au journal Comme soupconne OSP est une arnaque!. Évalué à 0.
Oh, et pour rigoler un peu, l'avis d'Andy Updegrove sur OSP : http://www.consortiuminfo.org/standardsblog/article.php?stor(...)
On a first read, this seems pretty modest, and it will be quite interesting to see the reactions that the new language draws. If a given specification is not well detailed and will need lots of work in the future, then the pledge will only work well for so long as Microsoft stays involved with that standard. More significantly, the pledge only relates to "compliant" implementations, which does run afoul of the open source right to change anything. From a standards point of view, that serves a purpose, as it furthers the spread of interoperable implementations, which is what standards are all about. That works well from that perspective, but may leave some open source advocates less happy. Still, nearly all standards obligations are so limited, so to the extent that this limitation is regarded as unfortunate, the same objection could be made against nearly other vendor as well.
...
Be that as it may, I think that this move should be greeted with approval, and that Microsoft deserves to be congratulated for this action. I hope that the standards affected will only be the first of many that Microsoft, and hopefully other patent owners as well, benefit with similar pledges.
Marrant quand meme, parmis les gens qui considerent OSP comme compatible GPL ca nous fait :
- Avocat de Redhat, avocat
- Larry Rosen, avocat
- Andy Updegrove , avocat
Et pas un n'est pro-MS pour un sou hein...