Microsoft Releases Patent on SenderID

wayne writes "Microsoft has now put the SenderID patents under the OSP. The Open Specification Promise was discussed on slashdot before in conjunction with web services and it is good to see that they are opening up even more. There are still technical problems with SenderID compared with SPF and, of course, SPF isn't problem free. Still, over the last year, the number of SPF records has more than doubled from around 1.7 million to 4.1 million, with rate of growth increased in the last 6 months."

Comments

Huh?

[chmod a x mojo]

Is MS actaully doing something right?

Personally, I don't see why they don't make their addon products available for open source platforms. It would seem to me to be common sense to support UNIX / Linux (seeing as how office is /was available for Mac computers) that they would want to sell as many copies as possible. I mean think about it, if a company is not using windows you are not making money. So sell them Office software instead, yes they could use an open source alternative but also offer or beter yet bundle support with your apps.

Maybe they are "testing the waters" by "donating" to open standards and opening up API's. Or it could all be a big PR stunt, but i am hopeing for the former because compitition is always good (as long as it is somewhat fair anyways).