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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."

8 of 226 comments (clear)

  1. Re:hm.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Are you deaf?

    PGP sounds like PEE-GEE-PEE. (Pee, as like I did in you sister's mouth last night [and she liked it])

    sender ID sounds, well, just like it's spelled.

    You, sir, are a phoneticlly deaf gaywad. Please go directly to GNAA, and do not pass go.

  2. Re:In other news... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I'll bet you feel very clever. Let's all laugh with the clever man. /me begins slow clap... *Clap.....Clap....Clap...Clap..Clap.Clap*

  3. Don't do it! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    do not make any deals with this evil beast named M$FT, they are evil incarnate AKA The Devil, The Beast, False Prophit (666)

  4. -1 Troll by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Just pointing out the obvious.

    And Mr. Mod, I just sat on your mother's face, and she told me that she loved me.

    And then I farted.

  5. Open Comment to OSI: by erroneus · · Score: 1, Troll

    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.

  6. follow up by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    There is a followup article on this subject over at Censorware Online. Pretty interesting. Check it out.

  7. Mmm... Trust by dan+of+the+north · · Score: 0, Troll
    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!

  8. Re:Does it matter? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Your post has nothing to do with its parent. I have become dumber by seeing it on my laptop screen.