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Sender ID and Almost-Open Standards (Groklaw)

[Posted September 8, 2004 by corbet]

Here is Groklaw's take on the patent-encumbered Sender ID specification. "Are monopolies allowed to use almost-open standards as a weapon to cut off the competition's air supply? Don't answer that. I think that only works in the dark, not under the always-on bright lights of the Internet, and not any more, now that the community has grown up, has some muscle, and some corporate backing."

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Posted Sep 8, 2004 23:06 UTC (Wed) by primorec (guest, #2740) [Link]

Link does not work. All I get on my screen is

Warning: mysql_connect(): Can't connect to MySQL server on 'mysql2.ibiblio.org' (111) in /usr/local/wwwcache/groklaw-private/system/databases/mysql.class.php on line 108
Cannnot connect to DB server

Sender ID and Almost-Open Standards (Groklaw)

Posted Sep 8, 2004 23:10 UTC (Wed) by TimCunningham (guest, #10316) [Link]

Going to the root does the same thing.. looks like Groklaw's SQL server is not well :)

FWIW, the link (andGroklaw in general) is working here, now. (n/t)

Posted Sep 9, 2004 10:27 UTC (Thu) by Duncan (guest, #6647) [Link]

(Well, only this and the sig, since LWN doesn't allow n/t posts.)

Duncan