From: Rik van Riel (riel@conectiva.com.br)
Date: Fri Sep 01 2000 - 13:37:07 MDT
[Non-member submission]
On Fri, 1 Sep 2000, Al Billings wrote:
> Rik wrote:
>
> > > CYMM SAYS: If MS were a real monopoly; it would be poor
> > > marketing. Now, with Open Source, this strategy seems to be
> > > plain stupid. "Intellectual property" as a concept has gone
> > > wayyy too far. The pendulum is about to swing the other way...
> > > it's a built in negative feedback loop.
> >
> > Except that they're using patent law (and trade secret law
> > extended to infinite patent law?) to try and remove open
> > source software from the marketplace.
>
> Who is? In what case?
Oh, and I almost forgot about the Kerberos case ...
As you surely know, Microsoft copied Kerberos into W2K
and extended it a little bit.
Then it published documents about their extension, with
a click-through license that you have to promise to not
try to implement their extension in order to be able to
read their document...
The case was documented on sites like Slashdot (which is
down at the moment ... I'll provide the exact URL later).
regards,
Rik
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