JP Morgan & PWHCoopers use Mozilla license

Posted by Hemos on Thursday June 10, 1999 @06:23AM from the moving-around dept.

Paul Cunnell writes "FpML? (financial product markup language), jointly created and maintained by J.P. Morgan and PricewaterhouseCoopers, is a new protocol for sharing information on, and dealing in, financial derivatives over the Internet. It is expected to become the standard for the derivatives industry in the rapidly growing field of electronic commerce. Of particular interest to Slashdot readers is the fact that they're using the Mozilla licence for it. " Somewhat analogous to the SABRE system for airlines - make an open system, so that everyone uses it, and you become the standard.

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Just not tell anyone. by gavinhall · 1999-06-10 02:00 · Score: 2

Posted by FascDot Killed My Previous Use:

Nearly all of MS's specs and protocols are undocumented or poorly documented. Things like WINE, Samba, and Office conversion utils are all reverse engineered.
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Sabre an open standard????? by twixel · 1999-06-10 02:20 · Score: 2

Last time I counted, there were four major arline reservation systems. All were proprietary.

SABRE, WORLDSPAN, GALILEO and AMADEUS.

So SABRE is not a standard and it is not open. It is a reservation system.

And how anyone can release a markup language with a license, is completely beyond me. Imagine HTML having a license. Or C.