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YEA FOR US, DOWN WITH MS IP PATENTS!

from larry seltzer at eweek:
Opinion: The standards group gives up on Microsoft contributions to the SMTP authentication proposal and instead suggests a hybrid alternative.
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After some weeks in the “Last Call” stage of the process, it became clear to everyone that most of the participants objected to the portions of the proposed specification that had been proposed by Microsoft along with a claim of intellectual property rights and a royalty-free patent license. There were lots of reasons—some good, some bad—but all that really mattered was that the working group didn’t like it.

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1644616,00.asp?kc=EWRSS03119TX1K0000594