You are so fortunate that you have not used a tilde as a separator in your custom CSV file format or you'd have heard from attorneys by now...
rk -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Gilbert M. Hale Sent: Wednesday, August 12, 2009 12:12 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [NF] M$ banned from selling Word inthe USA? > How can a company claim to have a patent on custom XML. > I, Gilbert Mitchell Hale, citizens of the United States Of America, hereby proclaim to own all rights to my own custom CSV file format, because I am using semi-colon characters as field separators instead of comma characters, and left/right square brackets instead of double-quote characters to nest non-numeric field values. Patent Pending. Use my custom CSV format at your own risk, and know I do not plan to enforce this patent (yet). Pay here... _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/df1eef11e586a64fb54a97f22a8bd04406552e7...@ackbwddqh1.artfact.local ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
