[Discussion] DOCX [Was: can you recommend a laptop?]

[Carl Gehr]

Felmon,
Thanks for the update!!!!  More than likely, that court will
be as unaware of antitrust law as most of the others that have
given M$ a pass.

If other people would just stop sending me all that proprietary
junk, then I could just get on with real business.

Thanks, again!
Carl

On Mon, 7 Sep 2009 13:49:37 -0400 (EDT), Felmon Davis wrote:

>On Mon, 7 Sep 2009, Carl Gehr wrote:
>
>> I knew about the injunction, but did not connect that to the DOCX type.
>>  And, I've not heard any follow up about what MS plans to do. 
>
>Microsoft has been granted a stay on a court injunction that would 
>have stopped the software giant selling its Word application.
>
>The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit handed Redmond the 
>temporary reprieve yesterday, after it ruled MS had done enough to 
>deserve a stay of the injunction.
>
>Microsoft applied for a speedy review of its appeal as well as the 
>stay of the injunction a fortnight ago.
>
>Canadian software maker i4i Ltd won a long-running patent legal spat 
>against Microsoft in a US district court in Texas on 12 August.
>
>MS was slapped with a $290m fine and issued with an injunction that 
>prevented the multinational from selling 2003 and 2007 versions of 
>Word that come loaded with i4iâ  s alleged patent XML tech.
>
>The injunction would have kicked off in mid-October, as a judge set it 
>to take effect 60 days from the ruling.
>
>A hearing at the Court of Appeals for the case has been set for 23 
>September. ®
>
><http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/09/04/microsoft_gets_stay_of_word_injunction/>
>
>> I wonder how it impacts the [supposed] OO 3.x Beta support?
>
>good question; wild guess: no impact.