Re: Microsoft XML scripting patent

2004-02-16 Thread Peter Reilly
Costin Manolache wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not only . You can do the same (storing) with Exactly, the patent descibes the contents of the ant "script" manual page: http://ant.apache.org/manual/OptionalTasks/script.html Peter And on [1] you ca

Re: Microsoft XML scripting patent

2004-02-14 Thread Costin Manolache
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Exactly, the patent descibes the contents of the ant "script" manual page: http://ant.apache.org/manual/OptionalTasks/script.html Peter And on [1] you can see, that´s

Re: Microsoft XML scripting patent

2004-02-13 Thread Steve Loughran
Jose Alberto Fernandez wrote: I went are read the sumary of the patent from the links provided. Not a layer, but I do not think it applies to ANT maybe to scriptdef, but that seemed like a streach. What I understood is that they pattented having a bunch of different scripts in different languages a

RE: Microsoft XML scripting patent

2004-02-13 Thread Jan . Materne
> But is not a collection of scripts. > is a collection of tasks in Java. > That is what ANT provides, not scripts. Correct. The right equivalent is . But can (nearly) be rewritten with a containing only one

RE: Microsoft XML scripting patent

2004-02-13 Thread Jose Alberto Fernandez
But is not a collection of scripts. is a collection of tasks in Java. That is what ANT provides, not scripts. In the worst case scenario, we are talking about wether the

RE: Microsoft XML scripting patent

2004-02-13 Thread Jan . Materne
> > > > > > > >>-Original Message- > >>From: Antoine Lévy-Lambert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>Sent: Friday, February 13, 2004 3:14 PM > >>To: Ant Developers List > >>Subject: Re: Microsoft XML scripting patent > >> >

Re: Microsoft XML scripting patent

2004-02-13 Thread Peter Reilly
er Does the ASF have a layer to check that? Jan -Original Message- From: Antoine Lévy-Lambert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 13, 2004 3:14 PM To: Ant Developers List Subject: Re: Microsoft XML scripting patent [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, it sound not like a pattent

RE: Microsoft XML scripting patent

2004-02-13 Thread Jan . Materne
14 PM > To: Ant Developers List > Subject: Re: Microsoft XML scripting patent > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >>So, it sound not like a pattent on scripting, but on > >>how to store collections of scripts in one file and being > >>able to execute them

Re: Microsoft XML scripting patent

2004-02-13 Thread Antoine Lévy-Lambert
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, it sound not like a pattent on scripting, but on how to store collections of scripts in one file and being able to execute them. as collection of scripts? Jan The example provided on the web page showing MS's patent show an xml file containing a .bat file and

RE: Microsoft XML scripting patent

2004-02-13 Thread Jan . Materne
> So, it sound not like a pattent on scripting, but on > how to store collections of scripts in one file and being > able to execute them. as collection of scripts? Jan > > Any pattent layer around? > > Jose Alberto > > > -Original Message- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[E

RE: Microsoft XML scripting patent

2004-02-13 Thread Jose Alberto Fernandez
I went are read the sumary of the patent from the links provided. Not a layer, but I do not think it applies to ANT maybe to scriptdef, but that seemed like a streach. What I understood is that they pattented having a bunch of different scripts in different languages all sitting on the same file s