FSF & OSI Speak out Against Sender-ID License 51
NW writes "As a followup to yesterday story, Eben Moglen of FSF and Larry Rosen of OSI have publically spoken out against Microsoft's Sender-ID license calling it incompatible with the GPL and Open Source. A related eWeek story also covers this and includes the following quote from Eric Allman, the author of Sendmail: "It's pretty clear that it's going to take an act of whatever deity Microsoft worships in order to get them to back down on the sublicensing issue. They made it absolutely clear to us that they were not even going to consider changing this, and the legal folks made it further clear that they would rather see Sender ID die than back down.""
Fine by me. (Score:5, Funny)
So be it.
Re:Fine by me. (Score:5, Funny)
It isn't a joke.
Die.
Familiar dialogue? (Score:4, Funny)
Eben-Wan Kenobi: "I don't think so."
OK, so the "back down" is directed the other direction, but it sounds so right, doesn't it?
Open Letter to Bill Gates and Minions (Score:3, Funny)
Dear Bill,
Regarding mandatory Sender-ID licensing.
Get bent!!!
Yours Sincerly,
jo42 (on behalf of the rest of the world)
Re:Fine by me. (Score:3, Funny)
"I accept your terms..."
Re:Fine by me. (Score:3, Funny)
A: Exactly.
Q: No, really, what's Blackbird?