• To: "Nadia.Swaby@p..." <Nadia.Swaby@p...>
• Subject: Re: MS Office XML "Binary Key"
• From: Rich Salz <rsalz@d...>
• Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 08:45:04 -0400 (EDT)
• Cc: "xml-dev@l..." <xml-dev@l...>
• In-reply-to: <OF7A09221A.283C11D3-ON8525709F.00408E8D-8525709F.00411725@p...>

> wondering if anyone here actually seen this key and how it could possibly
> cripple any XML exported out of Office.

The XML that comes out of MS Office is "crippled" in that it is covered by
patents, and the license for those patents has some limitations:
	http://www.microsoft.com/mscorp/ip/format/xmlpatentlicense.asp

/r$, proud resident of MA (it's appropriate to say that here:)

-- 
Rich Salz                  Chief Security Architect
DataPower Technology       http://www.datapower.com
XS40 XML Security Gateway  http://www.datapower.com/products/xs40.html

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