Microsoft-controlled patents that are necessary to implement only the required
portions of the Covered Specification that are described in detail and not merely
it states "and not the referenced parts". That seam pretty clear.
Microsoft does not give patent rights on item it merely references. So for example the standard says you can embed bmp and jpeg files it does not mean you get patent rights on jpeg and BMP but merely on the described method in the standard to embed them.
Of course you do not object to the Sun covenant not to sue I presume, which actually has a lot more vague text in it to limit the validity of the covenant :
"future version in which development Sun participates to the point of incurring an obligation"
At what exact point is Suns participation to opendocument developemnt to the point of incurring an obligation ?
in version 1.0 second edition they hardly contributed as all the edits differing form the regular 1.0 version can be qualified as ISO standardization related edits. So as actually Sun did not contribute anything new to the second edition version at all and therefore the covenant of Sun does not apply to the OASIS 1.0 second edition version ???!!!!!
That is something which cannot happen in Ecma because a new version needs to be voted on and Ecma requires that its member release their patentright on any standard thay vote approval for.
Anonymous (84.199.23.x) 24 Aug 2007 09:22