:Cal Law: The Standards Bearers [Microsoft agrees to freely license its controversial patent on Cascading Style Sheets]
Cal Law: The Standards Bearers [Microsoft agrees to freely license its controversial patent on Cascading Style Sheets] Mar 11, 1999, 18 :12 UTC (2 Talkback[s]) (9568 reads) (Other stories by Brenda Sandburg)
"Since when does Microsoft Corp. agree to give away
patent rights to competitors for free?
When it wants to placate a heavy-hitting technical
standards-making body, for one.
The World Wide Web Consortium, or W3C, went off on
member Microsoft last month after the company announced
it had won a patent on technology that the group adopted
last year.
Rather than fight, Microsoft backed off, agreeing to freely
license the patent, which relates to a technology known as
cascading style sheets."
