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Microsoft negotiating email Sender ID licensing with OSI

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NewsForge recently learned of some behind the scene negotiations between Microsoft and Larry Rosen of the Open Source Initiative (OSI) regarding its controversial licensing of Sender ID. I had the chance to speak briefly this morning with Rosen about those negotiations. He quickly brushed aside a couple of my misconceptions about the issues, and about prior art, then further enlightened me with his first-hand take on these ongoing-negotiations.

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bstadil ·
There was an interesting discussion at todays Linuxshow about prior art by Eric Raymond. Eric was on the show and mentioned that he wrote an article about same system in 1998 but didn't bother to patent any on this as he thought it obvious. The show is available for rehearing just click on lastweeks show http://lxer.com/module/newswire/view/21890/index.html#thread...
peragrin ·
That's the probelm with FOSS programmers. They see a probelm, and solve it. They then consider it so easy any idiot could do the same. Then some idiot patents it.

Just remember people MSFT wants to patent sudo.

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