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The Daily Grind 1019
by Mike Gunderloy
Wednesday, November 22, 2006
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So now Microsoft thinks you're violating their rights if you run Linux or if you
build an application that looks like Office 2007. This company does less to keep
me as a customer every day.
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Microsoft to Share Significant UI Investment in 2007 Microsoft Office Applications with Partner Community - Microsoft is making available a royalty-free licensing
agreement "that will enable developers to build applications that have the look
and feel of the new 2007 Office system applications" - not licensing code, but "its
intellectual property rights in the UI (which cover both design and functionality)." And you have to abide by
a giant set of design guidelines (which is only available under NDA) and agree to
only use the UI in an approved fashion to boot.
I thought Lotus v. Borland pretty well established our right to clone user interfaces,
without needing any stinkin' licensing agreements. This looks like another intellectual
property land-grab on the part of Microsoft to me, and I hope most software vendors
tell them to go to hell. None of us in the industry is going to be served by helping
establish a precedent that says one company can own innovations in user interface
design; this impoverishes us all as surely as the insanity in software patents does.
It distresses me to see several vendors I know and like (as well as some of my advertisers)
on their list of early licensees. Here's the
official licensing site, and here's some more
justification from Jensen Harris.
- CodeMash - Community-based developer conference
spanning a variety of platforms and technologies, coming in mid-January in Sandusky,
Ohio.
- The Windows Installer Search
Engine - Another specialized search engine based on Google technology.
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Mike Gunderloy is
the editor of Larkware, the daily .NET newspaper of record.
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