de-generationx.net :: Korgans News and Ramblings

Microsoft has filed patent #525484 with the New Zealand patent office to lay absolute claim over any “Word-processing document stored in a single XML file that may be manipulated by applications that understand XML”. In otherwords, any XML webpage, all documents created by Star Office, OpenOffice.org and many other programs and applications.

Um, isn’t the point of XML that it’s open?