"I'd say one way to fight spam is have a "do not spam" registry... like what's being done with telemarketers."
WRONG!
First, spammers won't honor it. They routinely commit US Federal crimes to deliver their crap; violating the do-not-email list wouldn't even put a hair out of place. We've already seen the IEMMC create a so-called "global opt-out lists" - and they use it to harvest the addresses and sold them off to more spammers. Rodney Joffe created a "legitimate" such list, and the DMA *and* all otehr spammers ignored it.
Second, the only acceptable "do-not-email" list consists of "*@*" - all addresses are opted-out by default.
Anyone sending bulk email to my servers had better be using proper, confirmed opt-in, or they will find I have opted them out by adding their entire IP space to the firewall deny tables.
Well, if your couch were originally designed by someone else; the design were made public, and licensed under the GPL such that it is a copyright violation to modify the couch to a proprietary, non-interoperable condition; and you subsequently committed that very violation of the GPL, thus putting your design's legal standing on extremely shaky ground; why, then, you'd have a good parallel.
However, Microsoft has commited theft of intellectual property, and now some of the people who have been harmed by that theft have exposed Microsoft for the predatory, monopolisitic, unethical bunch of neo-Nazis that we all knew they were anyhow.
Defending Microsfot in this case shows you to be (1) a Microsoft toady; (2) a Microsoft employee; or (3) soft in the head. A combination of the above is possible.
Is this anonymous coward under the idiotically simple impression that no Windoze users ever break the law?
Who wrote the ILOVEYOU virus? Linus Torvolds, perhaps? Or some pathetic Windoze user who failed his AMA college thesis becasue it was based on stealing passwords so he could get free Internet access?
Take responsibility for your child, Coward! Buy him a cheap, used 486 with 32 megs of RAM (that's enough to run Linux reasonably well) and let him experiment! Give him the opportunity to create his own future!
Or lock him into a Microsoft world and let him become another mindless drone - the sort who writes VBS virus scripts as a hopeless attempt to "get even" with the people who have suceeded.
The short version is on GEEK.COM (see http://www.geek.com/news/geeknews/q22000/gee200051 1001407.htm ), posted by Geek Rob:
"At the root of the issue is whether Microsoft legally has the right to keep its Kerberos extensions under copyright. As far as I recall, Kerberos extensions could only be kept private for in-house development. Obviously, Microsoft's Windows 2000 goes a bit beyond that."
And
"Remember as well that Microsoft has made the spec publicly available as long as you agree to certain terms--including that you don't tell anyone else the spec. Clearly, that's a ridiculous premise."
Even while it is on trial for abuse of its monopoly position, Microsoft is using the usual tactics (absorb, subvert, suppress) to abuse and strengthen its monopoly position.
The only way this will ever be stopped is to break up Microsoft. Well, short of nationalization, and summary execution of all key officers. Personally, I favor a breakup and summary executions, but I'm a moderate.
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"I'd say one way to fight spam is have a "do not spam" registry ... like what's being done with telemarketers."
WRONG!
First, spammers won't honor it. They routinely commit US Federal crimes to deliver their crap; violating the do-not-email list wouldn't even put a hair out of place. We've already seen the IEMMC create a so-called "global opt-out lists" - and they use it to harvest the addresses and sold them off to more spammers. Rodney Joffe created a "legitimate" such list, and the DMA *and* all otehr spammers ignored it.
Second, the only acceptable "do-not-email" list consists of "*@*" - all addresses are opted-out by default.
Anyone sending bulk email to my servers had better be using proper, confirmed opt-in, or they will find I have opted them out by adding their entire IP space to the firewall deny tables.
Well, if your couch were originally designed by someone else; the design were made public, and licensed under the GPL such that it is a copyright violation to modify the couch to a proprietary, non-interoperable condition; and you subsequently committed that very violation of the GPL, thus putting your design's legal standing on extremely shaky ground; why, then, you'd have a good parallel.
However, Microsoft has commited theft of intellectual property, and now some of the people who have been harmed by that theft have exposed Microsoft for the predatory, monopolisitic, unethical bunch of neo-Nazis that we all knew they were anyhow.
Defending Microsfot in this case shows you to be (1) a Microsoft toady; (2) a Microsoft employee; or (3) soft in the head. A combination of the above is possible.
Oh, get real.
Is this anonymous coward under the idiotically simple impression that no Windoze users ever break the law?
Who wrote the ILOVEYOU virus? Linus Torvolds, perhaps? Or some pathetic Windoze user who failed his AMA college thesis becasue it was based on stealing passwords so he could get free Internet access?
Take responsibility for your child, Coward! Buy him a cheap, used 486 with 32 megs of RAM (that's enough to run Linux reasonably well) and let him experiment! Give him the opportunity to create his own future!
Or lock him into a Microsoft world and let him become another mindless drone - the sort who writes VBS virus scripts as a hopeless attempt to "get even" with the people who have suceeded.
"At the root of the issue is whether Microsoft legally has the right to keep its Kerberos extensions under copyright. As far as I recall, Kerberos extensions could only be kept private for in-house development. Obviously, Microsoft's Windows 2000 goes a bit beyond that."
And
"Remember as well that Microsoft has made the spec publicly available as long as you agree to certain terms--including that you don't tell anyone else the spec. Clearly, that's a ridiculous premise."
Even while it is on trial for abuse of its monopoly position, Microsoft is using the usual tactics (absorb, subvert, suppress) to abuse and strengthen its monopoly position.
The only way this will ever be stopped is to break up Microsoft. Well, short of nationalization, and summary execution of all key officers. Personally, I favor a breakup and summary executions, but I'm a moderate.