{"id":75,"date":"2006-09-20T09:36:57","date_gmt":"2006-09-20T17:36:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.formtek.com\/blog\/?p=75"},"modified":"2006-09-20T09:36:57","modified_gmt":"2006-09-20T17:36:57","slug":"microsoft-sets-soap-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/microsoft-sets-soap-free\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Sets SOAP Free"},"content":{"rendered":"

Buried in the recent news is an olive branch from\u00a0Microsoft<\/a> to the Open Source community.\u00a0 Microsoft has a large list of patents related to SOAP and Web Services specifications.\u00a0 Last week\u00a0Microsoft announced<\/a> that they\u00a0would not seek claims on these patents, and they have dubbed their new policy the Open Specification Promise (OSP).<\/p>\n

This new policy covers\u00a0Microsoft’s patents on WSDL, SOAP, and WS-* technologies like\u00a0WS-Security and WS-Trust.\u00a0 Developers are free to implement or make use of any of these patented technologies at no cost and with no need to reference Microsoft as a part of their implementation.\u00a0 Currently there are 35 specifications covered by the OSP.<\/p>\n

Open Source developers try to distance themselves from patented technology.\u00a0 With Microsoft’s announcement, Open Source developers can use the technology without having to pay any royalties to Microsoft or to sign any kind of license agreement.<\/p>\n

Tom Robertson, general manager for interoperability and standards at Microsoft said<\/a> “Because Web services are a being widely adopted across the industry and with our customers, we decided to remove any potential questions about the widespread use of our IP in the implementation of these specifications.”<\/p>\n

Open Source vendors have endorsed the Microsoft policy.\u00a0 Mark Webbink, deputy general counsel at Red Hat commented:\u00a0 \u0093Red Hat believes that the text of the OSP gives sufficient flexibility to implement the listed specifications in software licensed under free and open source licenses. We commend Microsoft\u0092s efforts to reach out to representatives from the open source community and solicit their feedback on this text, and Microsoft’s willingness to make modifications in response to our comments.\u0094<\/p>\n

WS-* standards have been bogged down for some time.\u00a0 This new stance from Microsoft might be what’s needed to encourage a wider use of these standards within Open Source projects.\u00a0 That should lead to broader support of Web Services and SOA in general.<\/p>\n

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Buried in the recent news is an olive branch from\u00a0Microsoft to the Open Source community.\u00a0 Microsoft has a large list of patents related to SOAP and Web Services specifications.\u00a0 Last week\u00a0Microsoft announced that they\u00a0would not seek claims on these patents,…<\/span><\/p>\n

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