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> After reviewing and considering the comments that have been submitted > since the time of the posting, we offer to do the following: > > 1 Request a reexamination of the '729 Patent at our own expense. > > As part of the reexamination, we request that you provide us with > any prior art of which you are aware so that Sun may submit any > relevant prior art to the U.S. Patent Office. > > 2 Consider specific requests for changes to the terms. > > In order to accommodate the concerns of the development community, > we are willing to consider alternative terms. We have already > received some comments along these lines, and additional comments > are welcome. Wow! As one of those who initially criticized Sun and the W3C over this thing, I'm quite struck by the open-mindedness of Sun's response. I'm glad to know that even such a large company can avoid myopia with regard to its self-interest. I think amazon.com has a lesson to learn here. -- Uche Ogbuji Principal Consultant uche.ogbuji@f... +1 303 583 9900 x 101 Fourthought, Inc. http://Fourthought.com 4735 East Walnut St, Ste. C, Boulder, CO 80301-2537, USA Software-engineering, knowledge-management, XML, CORBA, Linux, Python
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