Je viens d'apprendre la nouvelle en lisant le dernier billet de David Berlind sur ZDNet.
- *On the fifth day of Christmas, Microsoft gave to me Rrrrrrrrrr Ssssssssssssss Sssssss? (c'est noël avant l'heure?))
Le brevet en question a été déposé auprès de l'US PATENT & TRADEMARK OFFICE, le 21 décembre 2006:
US PATENT & TRADEMARK OFFICE a écrit:United States Patent Application 20060288329
Kind Code A1
Gandhi; Amar S. ; et al. December 21, 2006
Content syndication platform
Abstract
A content syndication platform, such as a web content syndication platform, manages, organizes and makes available for consumption content that is acquired from the Internet. In at least some embodiments, the platform can acquire and organize web content, and make such content available for consumption by many different types of applications. These applications may or may not necessarily understand the particular syndication format. An application program interface (API) exposes an object model which allows applications and users to easily accomplish many different tasks such as creating, reading, updating, deleting feeds and the like.
Inventors: Gandhi; Amar S.; (Redmond, WA) ; Praitis; Edward J.; (Woodinville, WA) ; Kim; Jane T.; (Seattle, WA) ; Lyndersay; Sean O.; (Redmond, WA) ; Koch; Walter V. von; (Seattle, WA) ; Gould; William; (Redmond, WA) ; Morgan; Bruce A.; (Bellevue, WA) ; Kwan; Cindy; (Redmond, WA)
Correspondence Name and Address:
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Assignee Name and Adress: Microsoft Corporation
Redmond
WA
Serial No.: 158936
Series Code: 11
Filed: June 21, 2005
U.S. Current Class: 717/114
U.S. Class at Publication: 717/114
Intern'l Class:
Je ne connais pas les procédures en matière de brevets, mais selon David Berlind, Microsoft devrait attendre quelques années avant la validation de son brevet. Pour l'heure, espérons que le monde va s'élever contre cette ignominie; à l'image d'un certain Roberto Di Cosmo, qui dénonçait il y a quelques années "Le Hold-up planetaire:, la face cachée de Microsoft"...
Microsoft va donc tenter d'imposer sa plateforme Windows RSS comme une alternative au web en tant que véritable plateforme. Avec ce brevet, il s'attaque également à Google qui vient d'implémenter le standard ATOM dans GData... L'IETF s'est inspiré de RSS pour sortir le standard ATOM: une violation de la propriété intellectuelle de Microsoft si ce brevet est accepté! Nous sommes en plein délire! Il faut arrêter avec ces brevets, et vite!!
Quant à Dave Winer, l'inventeur de RSS... il semble complètement abattu! On le saurait à moins puisque Microsft lui vole la paternité de la technologie!
Dave Winer (paragraphe "A tale of corporate atrocity") a écrit:A tale of corporate atrocity.
I had lunch with Marc Canter yesterday, and he told me about a conversation he had with Tim O'Reilly and Cory Doctorow, where they told him they knew I had nothing to do with RSS. I asked how they said they knew. They had apparently asked some people at Netscape and they said they didn't work with me. As if that was how RSS came to be the powerhouse it is today. It isn't. Eventually Tim came around, and gave me credit for making RSS happen. Thanks.
The process whereby RSS came to be so powerful was one of building out both ends of the technology, supply and demand, and putting some currency on the network, and hoping it boots up. In the case of RSS as a transport for blog posts and news articles, it did, and the two pieces were Radio UserLand's blogging tool, Radio UserLand's aggregator, and a few early blogs, including Scripting News (the currency). It also worked in a similar manner, eventually, for podcasting.
Today I received a link to a patent granted to Microsoft, where they claim to have invented all ***spam***. Presumably they're eventually going to charge us to use it. This should be denounced by everyone who has contributed anything to the success of RSS.
Mais l'ami Dave n'est pas très malin quisqu'il a bloqué l'évolution de RSS pendant des années pour contrer les "forks". L'histoire de RSS est assez rocambolesque...Tout ça démontre l'utilité de Libre. Dave Winer devrait réagir...en libérant RSS, en le mettant sous GPL3...
A défaut, RSS rejoindra SOAP dans les technologies à oublier... L'avenir va très certainement se conjuguer avec REST, Atom, HTML 5, les microformats.... Entre temps, le W3C (coup de gueule de Daniel Glazman) risque d'exploser car il est atteint par une véritable gangrène... Le groupe de travail sur HTML est dirigé par un certain Chris Wilson, qui vient de travailler pendant 5 ans sur Windows Presentation Foundation (nom de code Avalon)... Le web "drivé" par un gars qui vient de passer 5 ans dans le monde desktop...
Chris Wilson -- IEBlog a écrit:...After IE 6.0 shipped, I worked on the Avalon project until I decided to rejoin the IE team four months ago...
Mais bon, Christophe Porteneuve nous rassure, Microsoft va se rallier aux incontournables JavaScript et DOM...d'ici 2040 sans doute...
Revue de presse (en):
- *Microsoft seeks patent covering Web feed readers (Anne Broache -- CNET News.com)
*Patent Application Moves Forward For Microsoft's RSS Application Program Interface (George McGinn - All Headline News Staff Reporter)
*Microsoft seeks patents for Web-feed technologies (Todd Bishop --seattlepi.com)
Revue de blogs (en)
- *RSS Patent (sur Google blog search)
*RSS Patent (sur Technorati)
*RSS Patent (sur Digg)
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