Microsoft Open Specification Promise
The Microsoft Open Specification Promise (or OSP), is an irrevocable promise by Microsoft, published in September 2006, to not assert legal rights over certain Microsoft patents on implementations of an included list of technologies.
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Microsoft always planned to open up the Outlook PST data format in 2010 and last week it made good on its promises by releasing a technical structure specification document. Paul Lorimer, Group Manager o
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Microsoft strategy on patents over OOXML is to provide 2 useless "Covenant Not to Sue" (CNS) and one "Open Specification Promise" (OSP) and to hide one RFRAND patent licence.
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Anyone can freely implement these specifications with their technology, code, and solutions. It's good to hear that Microsoft is finally starting to embrace open standards.
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Microsoft has placed C# and CLI specifications, ECMA 334 and ECMA 335, under the Community Promise which basically protects anybody implementing them in any language and in any way from being sued by Microsoft for infringing corresponding intellectual properties or patents. This is directly related to Mono, the open source .NET implementation, whos
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