1. How can Microsoft claim proprietary protections for enhancement to an open standard protocol? 2. How can Microsoft use the Kerberos name, which signifies an open standard protocol, in connection with a proprietary protocol? I think these two points are all I really want to hear the answer to. Seeing M$ calling their variation on an open standard a trade secret and trying to protect it as such seem ridiculous to me. Does anyone know if they're manipulating some kind of legal loop hole here to be able to release their own variation of Kerberos without making the source equally available?
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1. How can Microsoft claim proprietary protections for enhancement to an open standard protocol? 2. How can Microsoft use the Kerberos name, which signifies an open standard protocol, in connection with a proprietary protocol? I think these two points are all I really want to hear the answer to. Seeing M$ calling their variation on an open standard a trade secret and trying to protect it as such seem ridiculous to me. Does anyone know if they're manipulating some kind of legal loop hole here to be able to release their own variation of Kerberos without making the source equally available?