Microsoft has promised not to enforce patents for technology in Web services specifications, which are used in connecting applications in service-oriented architectures and other forms of standards-based distributed computing.
The company's Open Specification Promise covers nearly three dozen Web services specifications that contain Microsoft-contributed technology. The company's promise targets developers and customers working with commercial or open-source software.
"It was a simple, clear way, after looking at many different licensing approaches, to reassure a broad audience of developers and customers that the specifications could be used for free, easily, now and forever," the company said in posting the promise Tuesday.
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