There was a patent violation problem with XML in Office 2007:ZDNet - Ed BottMicrosoft is going to have to cease providing Custom XML as part of its Office suite, as it has lost its appeal to overturn a patent-infringement verdict awarded to Toronto-based i4i for that technology.
Microsoft removes Custom XML features from Office 2007 | ZDNet
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@Alejandro85
About Google chrome
Microsoft Spartan: Chrome Extensions targeted for native support
I read the gpl by the way.
Here is where I got some of the information I posted.
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling.html
https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html
It is interesting reading.
One thing I am little confused on is How software that doesn't have GPL is allowed not to release the source code if they port their software to Linux? I guess they use LGPL or BSD license.
@jimbo45
You are in Iceland and you can legally use VLC media to play dvd but you have to add a certain files to play them. I read one U.S. court case that said you can use the file provided you purchased the dvd. However, the U.S. copyright office disagrees with the judges decision and issued that the previous rules still apply. I don't know how the copyright office has power to overwright a federal judge decision. The person who made that file now lives in the U.S., no one has gone after him. That file is also on U.S. servers. I still rent videos because it is cheaper than on-line videos and no subscription required and yes I know about Amazon, they also have higher rental cost.
I'd say anyone that has a bunch of dvd's use dvd's
There's allot of convenient places where dvd's are available = no streaming issues.......
Old school plug and play
It doesn't matter what the government considers legal or not with what you can do with your pc.
The likelyhood of them catching you is almost none. They have bigger things to worry about.
Hi there
I never added a SINGLE file to the VLC package installed from Videolan - now I don't know what the law is in the USA involving the use probably of some form of LIBDVDCSS which I believe is part of the de-encryption mechanism - but I don't see how a poor user is going to be issued with any sort of Court Summons for installing a FREELY and LEGALLY available piece of software which consists of a single install file.
Whether on Linux or Windows I haven't had to add any extra software for some while now --years ago you had to add the LIBDVDCSS library separately - especially on Linux but those days are LONG GONE.
In any case I think the Movie studios would be happy you actually PAID for the DVD to play it rather than use a Pirated download. In addition I agree with the other posters -- most Govts have much more important things to worry about than people playing DVD's on their computers / phones / tablets rather than a TV.
Cheers
jimbo
The article only says about IE12 accepting Chrome extensions, it doesn't even mention how it will be implemented, which makes me think that they didn't took code from Chromium at all (or maybe the did, but no clue about that).
Even then.......
The Chromium project is open source, but not GPL. According to Wikipedia it's licensed under a variety of licenses, more permissive than GPL (BSD, MIT, the "do anything" ones) which don't require derived projects to also be open source, so they don't need to release anything even if the use some code from there. There are other Chromium-based browser that are proprietary too.
Even then.......
If Chromium were GPL, MS would only need to release the code of IE (that is, "spartan"), not the whole operating system, because other parts are completely separate programs that only happen to bundle IE and don't use open source code at all.
Porting software to Linux forces no requirement to release code at all. Legally it's considered to be a modification of the original project, hence it must follow its licenses. It hasn't anything to do with the Linux license, because you're not using Linux code at all, just your own. In fact, there is a lot of proprietary programs that run under Linux: List of proprietary software for Linux - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Neither of those are free software, nor are GPLd, even though they can run under Linux. Each one follows its own licenses, as the OS license don't affect the programs it runs.
In the same line of thinkin, if it were the case, each program written for Windows would be owned by Microsoft
That is odd. You may not need to decrypt in Iceland. VideoLAN - Legal read the section about LIBDVDCSS. As I said there was a U.S. court case, even though the copyright office disagrees with the Judge, He/She said you can download any file to play the dvd you legally purchased or rented.
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