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."

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Can we get the FUD tag now?

[zappepcs]

More MS FUD about being open, yet MS has never yet shown themselves to be anything but selfinterested proprietary money grabbers... Okay, yes, that sounds vaguely troll-like, but lets be realistic (no smoke without fire) and say, we really need to see genuine advances on the part of MS to believe anything they say, or that others might say nicely about them.

Not to be the boy who cried wolf, but why does anything that MS does that even sounds vaguely like Open Source make the news if it isn't Open Sourced? Just sounds like more FUD to me.... call me cynical, but I don't like when my OS calls home and does other things I don't want it to. When you count the brass tacks, this is just more propaganda