In the Cnet Article about this http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-1945948.html? tag=st.ne.ron.lthd.ni
It states As reported earlier, SoundScan division VNU Marketing tested the theory by looking specifically at sales in stores near universities, where online music has been more widely adopted than in the general public. In those stores, SoundScan data shows that record sales have actually dropped 4 percent in their internal networks, sales have dropped 7 percent in two years.
Doesn't that indicate that Napster helps sales, since in the locations near Universities that didn't ban Napster, the sales didn't go down as much as at the stores near Universities where Napster had been banned.
1. How can Microsoft claim proprietary protections for enhancement to an open standard protocol?
Answer: Because we can.
2. How can Microsoft use the Kerberos name, which signifies an open standard protocol, in connection with a proprietary protocol?
Answer: See Answer to Q1
3. How can Microsoft claim trade secrecy for a protocol that is distributed over the Internet?
Answer:Also see answer to Q1
4. What measures has Microsoft taken to protect the trade secrecy of its Kerberos specification beyond the use of a click-wrap license agreement?
Answer: Nothing - that's what lawyers are for.
5. What measures has Microsoft taken to ensure that its Kerberos specification is only distributed to persons who are capable of entering into a binding contract in jurisdictions where such an agreement would be enforceable?
Answer:This question is irrelevant so we don't have to answer.
6. How could posting of the Microsoft Kerberos specification on Slashdot have any detrimental impact on the market for authorized distribution of Microsoft's version of Kerberos?
Answer:It could hurt our efforts to create innovative software.
7. Why wouldn't prospective purchasers of Windows 2000 need to know the contents of Microsoft's Kerberos specification in order to make informed judgments regarding interoperability in connection with their purchasing decisions?
Answer:How else will the tech support industry stay in business?
8. Why shouldn't Slashdot users and the general public be able to view this protocol for purposes of commentary and criticism in light of its apparent relevance to issues in the government's antitrust litigation?
Slashdot Mirror
Link to PDF given in page
Link to PDF
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w ww.micr osoft.com/DEVONLY/dd-home.htm
w ww.micr osoft.com/MSPOWERPOINT/
w w.micr osoft.com/VBASIC/
http://web.archive.org/web/19960101000000
How about
http://web.archive.org/web/19960512204557/
or better yet (dated May 12, 1996)
http://web.archive.org/web/19960512184543/
The row of buttons along the top should count as prior art.
Another one:
http://web.archive.org/web/19960510230645/w
The tip of the week link looks good to me
Also the list of links on the left seems fairly static - yet linked to a dynamic changing URL
There's probably more there, but these should do for a start.
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-1945948.html
It states
As reported earlier, SoundScan division VNU Marketing tested the theory by looking specifically at
sales in stores near universities, where online music has been more widely adopted than in the general
public. In those stores, SoundScan data shows that record sales have actually dropped 4 percent in their internal networks, sales have dropped 7 percent in two years.
Doesn't that indicate that Napster helps sales, since in the locations near Universities that didn't ban
Napster, the sales didn't go down as much as at the stores near Universities where Napster had been banned.
Answer: Because we can.
2. How can Microsoft use the Kerberos name, which signifies an open standard protocol, in connection with a proprietary protocol?
Answer: See Answer to Q1
3. How can Microsoft claim trade secrecy for a protocol that is distributed over the Internet?
Answer:Also see answer to Q1
4. What measures has Microsoft taken to protect the trade secrecy of its Kerberos specification beyond the use of a click-wrap license agreement?
Answer: Nothing - that's what lawyers are for.
5. What measures has Microsoft taken to ensure that its Kerberos specification is only distributed to persons who are capable of entering into a binding contract in jurisdictions where such an agreement would be enforceable?
Answer:This question is irrelevant so we don't have to answer.
6. How could posting of the Microsoft Kerberos specification on Slashdot have any detrimental impact on the market for authorized distribution of Microsoft's version of Kerberos?
Answer:It could hurt our efforts to create innovative software.
7. Why wouldn't prospective purchasers of Windows 2000 need to know the contents of Microsoft's Kerberos specification in order to make informed judgments regarding interoperability in connection with their purchasing decisions?
Answer:How else will the tech support industry stay in business?
8. Why shouldn't Slashdot users and the general public be able to view this protocol for purposes of commentary and criticism in light of its apparent relevance to issues in the government's antitrust litigation?
Answer:Because we said so
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