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   From: voodoo@tootycar.net   
      
   On Wed, 06 Apr 2011 21:58:41 -0400, amicus_curious wrote:   
      
   > "voodoo"  wrote in message   
   > news:4d9be801$0$4180$c3e8da3$f017e9df@news.astraweb.com...   
   >   
   >   
   >> ah. i had interpreted amicus's use of asserted to mean lawyers dancing   
   >> in public. is what you wrote about applicable to the ms-xml spec?   
   >   
   > Oh the shame of it all, voodoo!  Imagine being reduced to taking advice   
   > from Homer!  That has nothing at all to do with any patent litigation,   
   > real or imagined, involving the open document standard.  And it has   
   > nothing at all to do with any patent claims, threats, assertions, or   
   > even veiled hints of any litigation.  It is a statement that Microsoft   
   > will not sue you if you use these things.   
   >   
   > The SFLC jumps in and tries to split legal hairs that they have no   
   > standing to declare in the first place.  If and when Microsoft ever were   
   > to assert one of these claims, then you might say "Dirty pool!" and have   
   > a case.  But it has never happened and never will.   
      
   dirty pool is what microsoft does best! that is how they advance ahead of   
   other software projects that are better planned and implemented. that is   
   how they execute their superior marketing and business operations. you   
   just cannot deny their glorious history! they would never stoop so low as   
   to give up the right to protect their treasured patents.   
      
   why should i trust crazy you over the crazy SFLC lawyers?   
      
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