[thelist] Microsoft, the inventor of XML!

Didn't they try (or even succeed) with patenting
it as MS's innovation?
(how i love this word in connection with MS)
.wolf

At 17:31 08.05.00 -0400, you wrote:
>Well, here's something I didn't know :-)
>
>What are these guys smoking?
>
>From http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A19908-2000May6.html:
>
>"Ballmer hopes to build Microsoft's new identity partly around a computing
>language known as XML. Invented several years ago by two Microsoft
>technologists, it allows easy exchange of information among different
>devices, across the Internet."
>
>XML isn't even a computing language, whatever the hell that is. I gave them
>an earful (I think... I just sent a blind email since I couldn't find a
>contact email address ANYWHERE... at least their consitant with their
>irresponsibility).
>
>Holding back,
>
>-- 
>mattwarden
>mattwarden.com