On Thu, 2004-09-02 at 16:37, James Couzens wrote:
[snip]
back to the public? Take off eh? LOL. Come back when you have a clue,
or better yet, just don't come back.
Given the Eric Allman quote that Yakov Shafranovich on the MARID list
at http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1639576,00.asp and Microsoft's
recent disengagement from the UN standards group, I would not be one bit
surprised if the Microsoft did pack up its toys and go home.
Frankly, the behavior implied in that eWeek article should not be
tolerated by any standards group. If what Eric said was true, then
Microsoft should be *told* to go home and not come back until it grows
up.
The quote for reference is:
"Allman also isn't optimistic about Microsoft making Sender ID
open-source friendly. "It's pretty clear that it's going to take an act
of whatever deity Microsoft worships in order to get them to back down
on the sublicensing issue. They made it absolutely clear to us that they
were not even going to consider changing this, and the legal folks made
it further clear that they would rather see Sender ID die than back down."
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