RE: Official statement from Microsoft concerning CSS, XSL and US Pate nt No. 5,860,073 from Benjamin Hardcastle on 1999-03-10 (www-style@w3.org from March 1999)

From: Benjamin Hardcastle <benjaminh@epic.co.uk>
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 09:40:59 -0000
To: <www-style@w3.org>
Message-ID: <000001be6ada$1a8e49e0$e0050180@titan.graphics.epic.co.uk>

> > obtain a license under Microsoft's US Patent No. 5,860,073 to implement
> > and use the technology described in W3C Recommendations for Cascading

I'm moderately confused by this. Does the phrase, "implement and use the
technology", mean something simple as knocking up a web page that uses style
sheets, or does it only matter if you write applications that can
read/write/interpret them?

Benjamin

Received on Wednesday, 10 March 1999 04:39:06 UTC