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

[Brad Montroy]

I heard that MS plans to remove the offending code from MS Word, and has 
asked the Judge for more time to do this and test, etc.  The plaintiffs 
claim it could be done with a patch, so it remains to be seen what the Judge 
will do.
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Carl Gehr" <Carl.Gehr at MCGCG.Com>
To: "POSSI Discussion List" <discussion at lists.possi.org>
Sent: Monday, September 07, 2009 9:19 AM
Subject: Re: [Discussion] DOCX [Was: can you recommend a laptop?]


> On Mon, 7 Sep 2009 08:12:04 -0700 (PDT), Thomas Clayton wrote:
>
>>With regard to .DOCX , everyone on this list know that a Federal judge has 
>>injoined MS from selling, bundling, ... distributing MS-Word on grounds of 
>>patent infringement? I "picked up" that tidbit, when led thru infoWorld 
>>some two weeks ago to another subject.
>
> A subsequent message from the person who sent the DOCX file said that
> it was created on a 'new MAC!'
>
> 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.  I wonder
> how it impacts the [supposed] OO 3.x Beta support?
>
> Thanks for the tip...
> Carl
>
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