On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 09:13:57PM -0500, wayne wrote:
In <41365B20(_dot_)8080204(_at_)solidmatrix(_dot_)com> Yakov Shafranovich
<research(_at_)solidmatrix(_dot_)com> writes:
Second point - at this time Microsoft has no patent or any other IP
relevant to this and is not forcing anyone to take out a
license. Therefore, no license is required as of today. We are talking
about a *possible* patent that *may be* approved in the future. As
Microsoft states in their FAQ:
This just makes the SenderID license requirement a time bomb waiting
to go off. For all I know, the patent was granted 5 minutes ago.
it won't make any difference, but I had dinner tonight with a friend of
mine who's a partner in a fairly substantial and rather well-known IP
law firm. I described the current situation to her, and the terms of
the MS license. Granted, she hasn't read the actual license terms (I'm
going to send them to her later this evening), but she stated that,
given the circumstances of the license and the undisclosed claims, she
would advise against going forward with Sender ID. Her wording was a
bit stronger than "advise against".
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