OSI And Microsoft Negotiating Over Sender ID

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."

Comments

Open Comment to OSI:

[erroneus]

You cannot deal with the devil and win. They want something with which to make more money. And they want your cooperation. They will offer a lot of "free stuff" but since when has it ever amounted to anything but deception from Microsoft. There are countless businesses that have suffered and/or failed due to Microsoft treachery. Some people call it "just doing business." I call it immoral. Slashdot readers might recall what Microsoft did to the ONE cell phone company that made a deal with Microsoft and how badly they got burned where MS forced the company into a breech of contract situation where they lost all rights to the technology they developed for MS. The list is much longer than I know to be sure but that which I do know is already ridiculous.

If you think for even a MOMENT that MS will not use their patent(s) as leverage against OSI later, you're living in a dream world. Furthermore, it has already been shown that Sender-ID is ineffective. We don't need Sender-ID.

Mmm... Trust

[dan of the north]

Rosen: I know the woman that I am working with at Microsoft, and I trust her to be as candid with me as her clients will let her be. And I trust her to negotiate with me honestly, and I have no reason to believe that she is not.

Netscape... etc. It is not in MS' dna to act trustworthy... we're doomed!