| James Hinnant 03/15/10 23:39 Read: 180 times Silicon Valley (west), Ca USA |
#174179 - patentable vs proprietary Responding to: Per Westermark's previous message |
Open Office is freeware and can read and write Office file formats. I kinda think Microsoft would not just hand over the keys to them.
If I'm reading the wiki correctly, file formats are not patentable in the US, but some algorithms used to calculate the data held in them are (such as for GIF file; in Europe, file formats are patentable but algorithms are not. (2nd paragraph of the 1st link below.) I guess proprietary is not synonomous with patentable, though. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_format#Specifications more details http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Office#Proprietary_File_Formats |
| Topic | Author | Date |
| SDCC download | Erik Malund | 03/05/10 11:53 |
| Here you go... | Robert Revens | 03/05/10 12:13 |
| newest | Jan Waclawek | 03/05/10 12:30 |
Has any effort gone into documentation?  | Richard Erlacher | 03/05/10 18:20 |
| documentation | Jan Waclawek | 03/06/10 03:16 |
| Just to add... | Robert Revens | 03/06/10 04:02 |
| more howto-s | Jan Waclawek | 03/06/10 05:13 |
| the first 'oddity' is ... | Erik Malund | 03/06/10 06:46 |
| I think you dreamt that one eric | Jez Smith | 03/06/10 07:27 |
| No - it's a well-known Gotcha! in SDCC! | Andy Neil | 03/06/10 11:46 |
| Reference: ISRs (or prototypes) must be in same file as main | Andy Neil | 03/07/10 01:04 |
| linking | Jan Waclawek | 03/06/10 14:36 |
| I see it not correct | Erik Malund | 03/06/10 14:51 |
| I don't understand | Jan Waclawek | 03/06/10 15:04 |
| what is it you do not understand? | Erik Malund | 03/07/10 07:11 |
| Does it not recognise... | Andy Neil | 03/07/10 07:25 |
| Surely not... | Robert Revens | 03/07/10 08:42 |
| "magic" | Jan Waclawek | 03/07/10 10:44 |
| That's not the fault of 'C'!! | Andy Neil | 03/07/10 13:14 |
| highly unusal, but | Erik Malund | 03/07/10 18:42 |
| Try java etc | Oliver Sedlacek | 03/08/10 07:54 |
| I now see why is this confusing | Jan Waclawek | 03/07/10 10:27 |
| emulation? | Andy Peters | 03/11/10 15:53 |
| Source-level debug | Robert Revens | 03/11/10 16:15 |
| symbol information | Maarten Brock | 03/12/10 04:05 |
| re: symbol information | Andy Peters | 03/15/10 18:40 |
| hex-file download? | Maarten Brock | 03/16/10 05:46 |
hex vs omf | Andy Peters | 03/16/10 12:08 |
| Keil proprietary stuff? | Andy Neil | 03/12/10 05:01 |
| extended omf51 | Juergen Christoph | 03/12/10 07:11 |
| omf51 vs cdb | Jan Waclawek | 03/15/10 16:48 |
| proprietary file format? | James Hinnant | 03/15/10 01:22 |
| I don't see why not | Andy Neil | 03/15/10 01:33 |
| So, what do *you* mean by, "proprietary" ? | Andy Neil | 03/16/10 02:15 |
| AutoCAD | Per Westermark | 03/16/10 03:15 |
| Yes | Per Westermark | 03/15/10 01:37 |
| patentable vs proprietary | James Hinnant | 03/15/10 23:39 |
| Proprietary is a questin of ownership, not protection | Per Westermark | 03/16/10 01:06 |
| bouncing email | Maarten Brock | 03/07/10 14:38 |