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Brian Jones: Open XML Formats — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 21:55:11 GMT

Wow, can't believe it's been over a month since my last post. I've been pretty busy getting back into

re: Updated binary formats documentation

Rebentisch — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 09:55:20 GMT

This sounds very promising. However, many experts say that the documentation tends to be incomplete and I am not sure that can be blamed on your company in any way. Is there any kind of "forensic" project which tries to document legacy formats and interact with external users of the documentation (feedback/qa)? I personally made good experiences with usage of team wikis to document legacy stuff.

Then another annoyance of documentation users is that MSDN documentation tends to disappear or CMS links get changed. Does Microsoft provide any solutions to make its documentation more "www-ready"?

Third, the patent licensing terms OSP need some honest rethinking and analysis to ensure better market confidence. We know that patent indemnification is a new field of private law with not enough "testing". A South African standards person wrote me today: "The matter of legal tools being in their infancy is significant. To a certain extent we can see things like the OSP as an experiment in this area. Unfortunately I have not seen anything robust enough as yet to be taken seriously. Including the OSP or other covenants and promises."