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OSI And Microsoft Negotiating Over Sender ID

Posted by timothy on from the accord-is-nice-but-so-is-lexus dept.

ValourX writes "Microsoft's Sender ID has already been rejected by both the Debian Project and the Apache Software Foundation, but Joe Barr of NewsForge today interviewed Larry Rosen of the Open Source Initiative and discovered that there are negotiations between the two entities with regard to Sender ID's licensing. Could Microsoft be considering an Open Source license for Sender ID? Slashdot has covered other aspects of this story in the past. NewsForge is part of OSTG, like Slashdot."

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  1. There is no Negotiating by thogard · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Years ago when X.400 was the in thing, Microsoft wanted to own email. The servers, the clients, the messages and collect a per message fee just like the post office.

    Can you explain why they don't think they can do this now?

    Now they have a huge patent base thats building up and they are going to use it to kill off the other options.

    This stuff scares me because its their way of taking control. They were a major player in the Gossip email systems and they lost out to SMTP. Now they have a sneakly way to undo that.

    I'll take spam and forged email over paying MSFT $.25 a message.

  2. Halloween Documents Anyone by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I may have missed any comments regarding this, but has anyone else drawn a connection between Sender ID and Microsoft's plan of "decommoditizing protocols" as referenced in the infamous "Halloween Documents"? 6 years later it seems their plans have remained the same. It'll be very interesting to see if they do come to some kind of agreement with the open source community.