Microsoft's Office Format Covenant Misses by a Mile

Posted by VISITOR on Nov 22, 2005 3:28 PM EDT
ConsortiumInfol.org; By Andy Updegrove 		Mail this story
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Yesterday, Microsoft dropped a bomb on ODF with its Ecma announcement. Today, it just plain bombed when it released its "covenant not to sue" implementers of its Office XML formats. Here's a line by line legal analysis - as well as a comparison with the Sun covenant that supports ODF. Suffice it to say that the Microsoft covenant misses by a mile.

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