[odf-discuss] Microsoft and Novell cooperate on document formats

[Ian Lynch]

On Fri, 2006-11-03 at 11:31 +0100, Thomas Zander wrote:

> AFAIK the MOOX patent covenant is only valid when the program implements 
> the full spec, MS is able to stop the publishing of software that does 
> not actually implement it completely.

What happens if some aspects of the spec are irrelevant to the
application? eg the application doesn't need or make use of say
spreadsheet features?

Ian
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