[tlug] FW: XML to be closed under M$ OFfice?

["Alfred Rodriguez" <arodriguez@example.com>]

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Alfred Rodriguez
Sent: Sunday, January 25, 2004 9:30 AM
To: Adrian Roche; Daryl Clayton; Henry L. Stradford II; Ikuko Oizumi; Julian Chisholm; Kentaro Sakamoto; Michael Studte; Natsuko Mukai; Rama Krishna; Scott Harlow; Ward van Besien;
Subject: XML to be closed under M$ OFfice?

This has gone really far...

 

Check out this recent post at Slashdot.ORG

 

  Microsoft Patenting Office XML Formats

 

What is M$ trying to do with XML?

 

XML is an open-standard that makes it easy for developers to make applications inter-operable with each other - and now M$ is gunning to make it a "closed-standard"... Just like what they did to Java, when they made their own version of the Java virtual machine. Whew!