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Sender-ID/FOSS Rift to be Resolved?

Daniel Quinlan of ASF mentioned in a recent newsgroup posting that Sender-ID negotiations between the FOSS world and Microsoft may restart:

I also briefly met with Ryan Hamlin, the GM of Microsoft’s Safety
Technology & Strategy group, and he’s interested in attempting a second
try at the patent license negotiation between us (well, Larry Rosen) and
a more senior attorney at Microsoft. So, it may not be entirely
hopeless that Sender ID be entirely usable by open source.

I wonder if it is due to the fact that the FTC may be reluctant to act in this area until the licensing issue is resolved.

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