My first thought was this is a good way to keep the anti-MS developers busy
whinging about patents instead of writing code.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mitch Amiano" <>
> My first thought on reviewing the patent was that Microsoft was patenting
Java.
>
> Simon St.Laurent wrote:
> > Perhaps this is an unfortunate fifth birthday present for XML:
> >
> > http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=
> > PG01&p=1&u=/netahtml/PTO/srchnum.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1='20030028685'.PGNR
> > ..&OS=DN/20030028685&RS=DN/20030028685
> >
> > (from news.com: http://news.com.com/2100-1001-984052.html)
