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Microsoft Offers to License the Internet

Posted by michael on from the low-low-price-of-$29.95 dept.

NW writes "According to an eWeek story Microsoft is beginning to assert IP rights over 130 protocols including many basic Internet protocols including TCP/IP, DNS, etc. The story originates with a mailing list post to the IETF's IPR list."

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  1. April 1st coming early this year or what?!? by ivi · · Score: 0, Offtopic


    (subj sezs it all..)

  2. WTF? by cammoblammo · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Okay, off the topic, but relevant to the site.

    This site just managed to sneak a pop under through and then crash FireFox on me. Has anyone else had the same problem?

    --

    Cogito, ergo sig.

  3. GRAMMATICAL NONESENSE by onlyjoking · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    However kewel and ubiquitous the practice may be it is grammatical nonesense to make an assertion and attempt to negate it by tagging "NOT" onto the end. It makes me wince every time I witness the English language being butchered thus.