On Saturday 04 September 2004 05:59 pm, Craig White wrote:
> ----
> I have a philosophy of not to reply to these and to just ignore the
> emails until the people figure it out for themselves.
>
> More importantly though, is the effort by Microsoft to induce system
> admins to use SPF - a technology which not surprisingly incorporates a
> Microsoft patent to control spam. It's evident that open source will
> have to fight against this effort to control the flow of email and
> surprisingly, there has been no discussion about that on this list.
>

I am also surprised at the lack of discussion of some things that are very 
important to the Linux/FS/OSS community.  Not that I am complaining about the 
content of this list!  It is the most valuable email list subscription I 
have.

Maybe many already get their fill of some issues from over-saturation (SCO 
anyone?) or don't see this list as a good place to discuss "politics."  For 
example, I have posted a few times since the end of July regarding the 
"Inducement Act" introduced in the Senate.  There have been no replies.  
While that is fine, it has surprised me.

On the topic at hand, SPF and MS patents, this link was on News Forge today 
and I think shows great progress at squashing the current proposal because 
the MS patent license is not "open" enough.

http://www.moongroup.com/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=21&Itemid=2

These updates, combined with rejection of the current proposal by the Apache 
Software Foundation 
(http://apache.org/foundation/docs/sender-id-position.html), there appears to 
be a growing wave against the proposal as it currently exists.  I am not sure 
what Sendmail will do now that they have implemented a test if the technology 
but others in the FS/OSS community are now rejecting it.

We, as a LUG, do need to watch these things that will directly effect our 
freedom to use the technology we enjoy now, and in the future.

Alan
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