On Sat, 2004-09-04 at 21:41, Alan Dayley wrote:

> 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.
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Thanks for the links.

I could see that SPF looked interesting at first glance and then from
the first grains of discussion that I came across, I found out about
Microsoft's intellectual property filings on the technology.

Internet email protocols cannot be hostage to Microsoft's intellectual
property patent portfolio period (apologies for the alliteration)

There is an interesting link...
http://www.ciphertrust.com/spf_stats

which suggests that it doesn't stop anything since spammers can and will
register their records - a dismal failure of technology to do anything
but deliver power to Microsoft.

Craig

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