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Apache Rejects Sender ID
hexene writes "In an open letter to the IETF MARID Working Group, the Apache Software Foundation has rejected the patent-encumbered Sender ID specification. This means no Sender ID support for SpamAssassin, Apache JAMES, etc. They state that the current license is generally incompatible with open source, and contrary to the practice of open Internet standards."
It also hinders those of us who have supported SPF, the old name of the spec before MS joined in.
Oh, but don't let the problems with SMTP hinder your irrational hatred of all things connected with Microsoft.
It looks like this Meng fellow started this SPF thing and gladly hooked up with Microsoft and had no interest in providing an open non-encumbered standard. A wish for open non-encumbered standards is often not simply some irrational manifestation of Microsoft hatred, but rather a desire to let different systems, including free software systems, interact.
Isn't Microsoft providing a royalty-free license for everyone to use this patent?
It's funny how some people deride Microsoft for not supporting web standards in their IE browser.. and then turn around and applaud Apache when they say they're not going to support IETF standards. I bet they don't even realize they're contradicting themselves..
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Yes, but everyone knows that Micro$oft is all about standards, and since they created all standards, they must be followed.
This sig no verb.
You would have been modded insightful if thee were a mod who actually reads books ;)
The system had the verbosity of HTML combined with all the readability of compiled assembly viewed as bitmap images