"Roy Schestowitz" <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Microsoft's 'Naughty or Nice' Patent Application
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| "Those of you worried about Microsoft's stance on network neutrality
| won't find much comfort in the software giant's just-published patent
| application..."
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http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/08/25/0555222&from=rss
A couple of unrelated comments:
(*) Slashdot summary is misleading. This has nothing to do with the
network neutrality issue. They are patenting the concept being able to rate
users, and reward the good ones and punish the bad ones.
(*) Examples of prior art: Slashdot moderation system, anti-spam
detection and banning system on blogging sites, QoS service as implemented
in most Windows networking system (there's probably a Linux equivalent too,
or perhaps the QoS service is OS agnostic, I don't know), BitTorrent
tit-for-tat algorithm, eMule sharing point system, etc.
(*) This is a cool idea (evidence is that it's already in use by several
systems), but obviously should not be patented (evidence is that it's
already in use by several systems).
- Oliver
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