Open-source ID project awaits Microsoft's blessing
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| An open-source rival to a Microsoft identity tool has been in limbo
| for months, awaiting the software giant's go-ahead on certain
| patent-related issues.
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http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513_22-6165850.htm
Could these delays be deliberate? Only recently:
Eclipse executive chides Microsoft on interoperability
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| Commenting on Microsoft, Milinkovich said Microsoft sends
| representatives to EclipseCon every year. Eclipse and Microsoft
| officials in attendance then agree that a meeting ought to be set
| up between the two sides. But afterward, "they never call,"
| Milinkovich said.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/infoworld/20070306/tc_infoworld/86590
Feds: Microsoft not meeting deadlines in antitrust settlement
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| Federal antitrust officials have expressed growing concern that
| Microsoft is falling behind on deadlines to revise technical
| documentation to licensees, according to a joint status report
| released Wednesday.
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http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513_22-6165205.html
Related:
Europe Threatens New Microsoft Fines
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| The European Union escalated its trans-Atlantic fight with Microsoft
| Corp. on Thursday, threatening new multimillion fines against the
| software maker over claims it is asking rivals to pay too much
| for information that would help their servers work with Windows.
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http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/070301/eu_microsoft
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| 'A number of Microsoft ex-employees and certified developers have
| referred to much of Microsoft's formal documentation as "undocumentation"'
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http://www.sonic.net/~undoc/comes_v_microsoft/Supp_Rpt_Andrew_Schulman.pdf
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| Vista is to ship with a new version of SMB, called SMB2. At
| minute 40 in this FLOSS Weekly podcast, Jeremy Allison of
| Samba talks of behavior that will flood the network with
| 1500 packets just to do a network file delete. This will
| turn Vista computers into a DOS (Denial of Service) attack
| upon Samba based computers on the network.
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http://www.twit.tv/floww14
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