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Microsoft's protocol license agreement
Microsoft's protocol license agreement
Posted Nov 8, 2004 12:10 UTC (Mon) by nowster (subscriber, #67)Parent article: Microsoft's protocol license agreement
Whilst most of the IETF standards are referenced back to the RFC repository, oddly the serial line file transfer protocols (X-Modem, Y-Modem, Z-Modem, Kermit, etc.) are described as "Hyperterminal protocols" without giving attribution to those who invented them, implying by omission that Microsoft invented them.
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Microsoft's protocol license agreement
Posted Nov 8, 2004 15:21 UTC (Mon) by ccchips (guest, #3222) [Link]
I suppose I should read the darn thing, but the above posting shows how this nonsense really grates.
I talked to Randy Suess a couple times, and Ward Christensen's original documentation of Xmodem was in front of my face for years. My company used Kermit to transfer files back and forth, in a platform-independent manner, and to access our mainframe as a terminal, for just as many years. Some of the time, the systems we used for terminals didn't even *run* a Microsoft operating system.
This *thing* from Microsoft is really a great example of how sickening this industry is getting lately. Where are the major efforts, on the part of these behemoth corporations, to stop the widespread criminal invasion of privacy on the Internet, through spam, viruses, and spyware? Why are they instead trying to claim rights to work that does not belong to them?