[K12OSN] Web based Student Information Systems?
"Terrell Prudé Jr."
microman at cmosnetworks.com
Tue Jan 16 05:28:34 UTC 2007
Tom Hoffman wrote:
> On 1/15/07, "Terrell Prudé Jr." <microman at cmosnetworks.com> wrote:
>> It does sound good, but given Microsoft's recent tendencies, there is a
>> concern. Does it have patent restrictions, like their Office XML or the
>> FAT file system? Shame we have to think about this, but unfortunately
>> we now do....
>
> It isn't really a Microsoft thing at all. It is more of a technique
> or style than a product.
>
> --Tom
>
So are Microsoft's Office XML file formats. They, too, are more of a
technique or style. But Microsoft still claims patents on it. Same
with FAT; it's a technique of organizing files on a storage device. Are
we sure that this AJAX won't come back to bite us in a legal sense? I
ask this because Jim McQuillan just said that it was indeed written by
Microsoft, first as "XMLHTTP". I quote Mr. McQuillan:
"Actually, AJAX should be considered a Microsoft thing. At the core of
AJAX is a function called 'XMLHttpRequest', which started life as
'XMLHTTP', which was written by.... Microsoft. (Even Microsoft can
have a few good ideas)"
Hence, the concern. Should (non-Novell) F/OSS developers really be
using this before it's been verified safe, in the legal (i. e. patent)
sense?
--TP
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