Saturday, December 4th, 2004
Just ran across a Linux program that aims to be a Visual Basic-replacement for Linux - Gambas. Haven't played with it yet but it looks very promising especially the fact that it is syntax compatible with VB6. I wonder if Microsoft cares enough to stop them considering that VB6 probably ...
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Saturday, December 4th, 2004
Some time ago I mentioned a new political action comitee called "IPAC" focused on addressing some of the problems with the current IP laws. They just opened a blog which seems to be an interesting read.
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Saturday, November 6th, 2004
According to a post to the IETF's IPR list and an eWeek story, Microsoft maybe asserting IP rights over basic Internet protocols:
Has Microsoft been trying to retroactively claim IP (intellectual property) rights over many of the Internet's basic protocols? Larry J. Blunk, senior engineer for networking research and development at ...
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Monday, October 25th, 2004
(This entry has been Slashdotted and published on Circle-ID).
With the closure of IETF's MARID group a month ago, many of us have left Microsoft's Sender-ID standard for the dead. After being rejected by the Apache Foundation and the Debian Project over licensing issues, and causing the closure of MARID for ...
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Monday, October 18th, 2004
I ran across a story at NewsForge describing a new Political Action Comitee (PAC) called iPAC for influencing the current intellectual property issues. Their principles sound pretty good to me but it remains to be seen how much impact they will make:
1. Creators of ideas and inventions have the right ...
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Wednesday, October 13th, 2004
Slashdot is reporting on a new Microsoft patent that covers client-side data processing using drop-down menus, alphanumerical input boxes, check boxes, radio buttons, sliders, arrays, stacks, queues, linked lists, and decision trees. That's right boys and girls - no more sortable DHTML tables, or any kind of fancy DHTML manipulations ...
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Saturday, September 18th, 2004
My former co-chair as the ASRG, John Levine, published an analysis of Sender-ID?s patent application. Along with other opinions offered in the MARID WG, it seems that the patent may very well cover SPF Classis which only does MAIL FROM checking. Considering that Paul Vixie?s and David Green?s drafts predate ...
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Wednesday, September 15th, 2004
According to a recent post on the MARID list, Microsoft is publishing their patent applications for Sender-ID instead of keeping them private. The actual applications haven?t posted to the USPTO?s site but I am sure people will be watching. If the patent application is publically available, that would allow the ...
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Monday, September 13th, 2004
While several news stories are reporting that Sender-ID has been killed, that is not entirely true. While Sender-ID in its current form is dead because of PRA, the compromise version with MAILFROM and PRA scopes is not. Also, the co-chairs want to stay away from any other alternative algorithms that ...
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Tuesday, September 7th, 2004
Newforge is carrying an interesting interview with Larry Rosen, general counsel for OSI. Among some of the more interesting tidbits:
And the second point: I don't have any basis for making the statement that the patent itself is valid or invalid. First, no one has seen the patent, because it is ...
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