Thursday, December 21, 2006

A Tale of Corporate Atrocity: Microsoft Tries to Patent RSS

Dave Winer:

Today I received a link to a patent granted to Microsoft, where they claim to have invented all this stuff.

Presumably they're eventually going to charge us to use it. This should be denounced by everyone who has contributed anything to the success of RSS.

More here (and here).

1 Comments:

At Thu Dec 21, 09:35:00 PM PST, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Your summary and at least one of the linked articles claims this is a granted patent. As the underlying link makes clear, this is a patent application. There is still time, in other words, for this to be rejected.

 

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