>Is this your excuse not to learn and use XML???

Hi Rick!
Assumptions: that I neither know nor use XML.


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>Whoever this nobody company is - they don't have a leg to stand on.

Depends on how deep their (yours, whomever) pockets are. I'll use it until some lawyer sends me a cease and desist. For just posting a "heads up" one shouldn't get their head taken off... ;-)



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>+++ Rick ---
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>>>>UILF has begun persuing 'infringers' of their XML patent, which they call BOSS.
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>>>What does this have to do with learning how to read data from a standard format?
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>>Obviously, if you use a 'technology', regardless of how simplistic it is, without a license from the patent owner you are open to a world of hurt. If one wants to pay the license, no harm no foul. If one doesn't then the questions arises as to why one would want to learn a propriatary technology.
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>>And, I mentioned the subject because that day was also the day when UIFL announced their patent on the XML technology. So, even if XML is easy to learn, as you pointed out, and takes nothing more than a few ideas and Notepad, if the output is used on a website and UIFL takes notice expect to hear from their lawyers. Is it clear now?