FSF & OSI Speak out Against Sender-ID License

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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I'd rather see separate mod scales

[leonbrooks]

I'd like to see separate Agree/Disagree mods that don't use up karma, and don't have a cap (on either the post's rating or the user's hoarding ability). I'd also like to see high-score tables for those (as in, all-time agreeable and disagreeable posts, most and least agreeable average-over-lifetime and -over-last-20-posts, plus the extremes for this month, the last 24 hours, and top/bottom 3 posts in each story.

Maybe allocate one agree/disagree point per user per visit-day (ACs don't get any) and allow someone to spend up to two on a post (as in "strongly-agree, agree, don't-know-or-don't-care, disagree, strongly-disagree").

I think having a discrete "agree/disagree" channel will help the noodles get feelings off their chests without modding to their feelings instead of impartial merit.

I'd also like to see the "real" mods split out into quality-of-language, quality-of-interest and quality-of-data. At the moment, there's no way of saying "this is interesting and based on quality data/good links but the language sucks" or "nice post but lacks supporting data".