Re: Motion to abandon Sender ID

On Thu, 2004-09-02 at 13:07, mazieres(_at_)gmail(_dot_)com wrote:

> Before you indemnify me, though, you might want to take some history
> into account.  Remember that Microsoft didn't use to be a very
> litigious company at all.  Then one day they decided it was in their
> strategic interest to enforce their patent rights on video codecs. 
> Who knows what's going to happen in the next 20 years?  Is it really
> so hard to imagine a scenario in which, say, a popular open-source
> mail server uses a small but highly effective extension of Sender ID
> to thwart spam, and Microsoft believes distribution of this software
> is not in their strategic interest?  (Remember, the license only
> allows strict compliance with the standard.)
*cough* FAT32 and flash disks *cough*

Cheers,

James

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