Re: Interesting "almost open source" Microsoft tactic

"Stephen J. Turnbull" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.misc.free-software-business
Organization The XEmacs Project
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
>>>>> "Benjamin" == Benjamin J Tilly <" <[email protected]>> writes:

    Benjamin> They have apparently applied for a patent or patents
    Benjamin> (this is unclear) on their proposal.  And they offer a
    Benjamin> license for it.

Good.  This should squash implementation.  :-)

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