Re: [ebxml-dev] SAP Patent applications for ebXML; Unethical

Thanks for the links Dave.

My boss and I are temporarily assigned to work in Mexico to help our
small suppliers to the automotive industry to use application software
based on standards. We haven't had much luck except to find a few
custom EDI applications that will not work in a real time internet
world.

We are thinking we might be better off writing a few custom programs
ourselves using ebXML. Now we will be forced to put everything on hold
until our corporate legal staff tells us if we will be violating any
patents.


On 7/1/07, David RR Webber (XML) <> wrote:
>
> One possible avenue here for SAP is a non-assertion pledge as Sun
and IBM
> have done.
>
> http://www.oasis-open.org/archives/ubl-dev/200607/msg00005.html
>
> http://www.ibm.com/ibm/licensing/patents/pledgedpatents.pdf