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FSF & OSI Speak out Against Sender-ID License

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the well-there's-no-surprise-here dept.

NW writes "As a followup to yesterday story, Eben Moglen of FSF and Larry Rosen of OSI have publically spoken out against Microsoft's Sender-ID license calling it incompatible with the GPL and Open Source. A related eWeek story also covers this and includes the following quote from Eric Allman, the author of Sendmail: "It's pretty clear that it's going to take an act of whatever deity Microsoft worships in order to get them to back down on the sublicensing issue. They made it absolutely clear to us that they were not even going to consider changing this, and the legal folks made it further clear that they would rather see Sender ID die than back down.""

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  1. Re:Fine by me. by LordNimon · · Score: 5, Informative

    That's what I was thinking. I wasn't intending to be funny. I was very serious. Oh well.

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    And the men who hold high places must be the ones who start
    To mold a new reality... closer to the heart
  2. Get used to it... by cornice · · Score: 3, Informative

    It's quite clear that this is the best strategy that Microsoft has against Free Software. MS _may_ not get to point where they directly sue over patents and copyrights but be assured that they will work very hard to create useful and popular things that are legally incompatible with Free Software.

  3. Re:Uh... by gorre · · Score: 3, Informative

    Yes, the statements can be found here.

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    "Madness is something rare in individuals - but in groups, parties, peoples, ages it is the rule." -- Nietzsche