All -
Regarding the issues of licensing and intellectual property:
1) It has been my understanding that any technology that Microsoft has
claims to would be made available with zero royalty licensing terms
that are compatible with open source development and distribution
including GNU licenses and OSF approved licenses. If this is the case
and the license bears it out, then I have no objections to such an
arrangement. If this is not the case, I am confident Microsoft will
clarify their intentions.
2) Since the IPR disclosure filed by Microsoft for the Caller-ID draft
doesn't indicate what portion of the draft is covered (section V(C) is
blank), and since only parts of that draft have been incorporated into
the marid-core draft, I would like to ask that Microsoft clarify which
portions of the marid-core they have patents pending for.
- Mark
Mark Lentczner
http://www.ozonehouse.com/mark/
markl(_at_)glyphic(_dot_)com