[This was foreseen]
Eligibility Expands for Web Certificate
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| "There are some new steps introduced," said Markellos Diorinos, a
| product manager with Microsoft Corp. "They need face-to-face validation."
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| New guidelines call for smaller merchants to produce documents such
| as a driver's license or a bank statement, according to certificate
| issuer Comodo. A lawyer or a notary would have to review those
| documents.
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http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/070613/techbit_internet_padlocks.html?.v=2
Microsoft has become a Net nanny. This is a dangerous thing.
Related:
Microsoft's bold march towards open source
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| Microsoft is labouring under a delusion. While the rest of the world
| thinks of it as a software company, it prefers to consider itself
| a government department. How else to see its latest scheme whereby,
| if you ignore its questions, it will report you to its private
| paid-for policemen at the Business Software Alliance?
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http://opinion.zdnet.co.uk/leader/0,1000002208,39285719,00.htm
Microsoft cracks down on UK licences
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| According to ComputerWorld, Vole has sent out a series of letters
| threatening legal action using its agents the Business
| Software Alliance (BSA).
|
| Ram Dhaliwal, Microsoft's licensing programs manager in the
| UK said the move was to "spark off the engagement" with its customers.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=37281
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