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Microsoft's protocol license agreement
Microsoft's protocol license agreement
Posted Nov 7, 2004 17:43 UTC (Sun) by lolando (subscriber, #7139)Parent article: Microsoft's protocol license agreement
...and as seen on one of the first comments on the Slashdot article, namely http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=128797&cid=10... (and on the FAQ it points to), Microsoft apparently doesn't actually claim "IP rights" to those protocols.
Ironically, one of the comments in reply to that comment criticizes Slashdot editors for not following the links before publishing news. I'll assume LWN's article was sarcastic rather than literal...
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Microsoft's protocol license agreement
Posted Nov 8, 2004 7:39 UTC (Mon) by ken (subscriber, #625) [Link]
They claim they may or may not have rights and that is not the same thing as claming they have no IP rights. The whole thing is very unclear but I guess that's on purpose. I also would like to know what microsoft think they own in http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc0863.txt it's item 19 on the protocol list.