<div dir="ltr"><font face="georgia,serif">I don't normally rely on Wikipedia being an authoritative source, but this article<br><br><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Open_Specification_Promise">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Open_Specification_Promise</a><br>
<br>seems to have links that you might want to visit if you are really interested </font><font face="georgia,serif">(disclaimer: I am not really interested, so I didn't do any further research)</font><font face="georgia,serif">, in particular regarding FLOSS/GPL/whatever compatibility. Interestingly, MS-OSP seems to be a patent license.<br>
</font><br style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">After a very cursory glance it seems that it covers older formats (doc, ppt, etc., rather than docx, pptx, and so on), and one should indeed be careful. The way I read it is that if all you want to do is create an editor that uses the Word format it's OK, but if you want to use the technology for something else then you may get sued. Where the line is is absolutely unclear to me.</span><br style="font-family:georgia,serif">
<br style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">IANAL.</span><br style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">-- </span><br style="font-family:georgia,serif">
<span style="font-family:georgia,serif">Oleg Goldshmidt | </span><a style="font-family:georgia,serif" href="mailto:oleg@goldshmidt.org" target="_blank">pub@goldshmidt.org</a><br>
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