Open sourcers revolt against Microsoft antispam plan
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MacCentral - Two prominent open-source software groups have rejected a proposed technology standard backed by Microsoft Corp. that would close a loophole used to send unsolicited commercial ("spam") e-mail, citing unresolved patent and licensing issues with the standard known as Sender ID.
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With the closure of IETF&#39;s MARID group a month ago, many of us have left Microsoft&#39;s Sender-ID standard for the dead. After being rejected by the Apache Foundation and the Debian Project over licensing issues
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RWerp writes &quot;LWN.net reports that Debian, a Linux distribution known for its commitment to Free Software ideas, rejected Microsoft-patented SenderID technology, intended to combat spam.
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Internet engineers working on a standard for identifying the source of e-mail messages voted down a proposal by Microsoft to include some of that company&#39;s intellectual property in the specification.
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How a simple bug betrays Microsoft's disdain for basic best practice principles
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Linux users don't believe claims by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer that the open-source OS infringes on Microsoft's intellectual property. In fact, Ballmer's comments are making them mad.
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MacCentral - America Online Inc. (AOL) has decided not to fully support Microsoft Corp.'s Sender ID spam-fighting plan after the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and the open- source community expressed intellectual property concerns.
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Plans to combat spam are in trouble because Microsoft wants too much power, argues technology analyst Bill Thompson. The internet relies on a large number of technical standards which define in precise and
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With intellectual property issues already causing defections from its Sender ID proposal, Microsoft Corp. is sparking fresh concerns that IP could even undermine alternatives.
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Internet engineers working on a standard for identifying the source of email messages voted down a proposal by Microsoft to include some of that company&#39;s intellectual property in the specification.
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Australia's Kingfisher Bay Resort, under attack from increasingly clever spammers, has gone public with its decision to switch from Symantec's antispam product to a competitor. The incident spotlights the difficulty of keeping such products "up to scratch."
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Open-source software is nipping more sharply at the heels of Microsoft, leading the software giant to defend itself more fiercely than ever against the insurgent rise of freely distributed, collaboratively coded programs. -washingtonpost.com
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As other attacks surface Doubts have arisen about the effectiveness of a Windows key generator package that allegedly offered a means to circumvent Microsoft's anti-privacy protection.â¦
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After running into opposition to its Sender ID antispam plan, Microsoft has revised and resubmitted it to the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) for consideration, according to a company spokesperson.
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In unlikely combination, U.S. government and advocates of free and open-source software are backing Microsoft in patent spat with AT&#38;T.
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How a seemingly simply Microsoft bug betrayed its author's disdain for a wide range of secure coding principles.
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NEW YORK - Engineers in charge of setting technical standards for the Internet have rejected a preliminary spam-fighting proposal from Microsoft Corp.