Saturday, October 2nd, 2004
Coming on the heels of GrokLaw article describing Sun's new stance fighting against towards open source software, is a strange CNET story about a "new patent" filed for by Sun:
Sun Microsystems President Jonathan Schwartz, who speaks often of innovation in sales methods and not just technology, is seeking a patent ...
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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
As suspected before, Microsoft's Harry Katz confirmed today that Microsoft's IPR claims apply to their PRA algorithm alone. The rest of Sender-ID is unencumbered unless used in conjunction with PRA.
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Tuesday, September 7th, 2004
According to Slashdot story and the Register Microsoft has been granted a patent for the use of a keyboard TAB key to navigate through a web page. No word yet on the licensing fees for the makers and end-users of those "other" browsers like Mozilla, Opera, etc.
And of course Mosaic ...
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Tuesday, August 31st, 2004
Copyright ? 2004 Yakov Shafranovich (asrg@shaftek.org). This article is under a different copyright than the rest of this blog. This article was originally published at CircleID.
Part II
While everything seemed fine and various participants in these discussions were celebrating the merger of these proposals into one, as well as the support ...
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Tuesday, August 31st, 2004
Copyright ? 2004 Yakov Shafranovich (asrg@shaftek.org). This article is under a different copyright than the rest of this blog. This article was originally published in CircleID.
Part I
A long long time ago when the Internet was still young and most people were still using clunky Apples, PCs and mainframes; two documents ...
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Tuesday, August 24th, 2004
Microsoft posted today their new license for Sender-ID protocol (which grew out of SPF/RMX/DMP/DRIP/etc. work in the ASRG). It still requires a signed license directly from MSFT for each implementer . More so, the license states excplictly on the bottom that the information on licensors may be published publically. Others ...
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Saturday, July 24th, 2004
Apparently the long debate about Microsoft's license for Sender-ID has attracted the Richard M. Stallman of GNU himself. In a recent message to the MARID list he said:
Microsoft's Sender-ID license is directly incompatible with free
software regardless of which free software license is used. Free
software means users are free to ...
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