Microsoft Offers to License the Internet 463
NW writes "According to an eWeek story Microsoft is beginning to assert IP rights over 130 protocols including many basic Internet protocols including TCP/IP, DNS, etc. The story originates with a mailing list post to the IETF's IPR list."
RedSox, Bush, MPAA (Score:5, Funny)
Perfect!
The Horsemen are drawing nearer,
On Law suits they ride,
They come to take your LIFE!
How can I pay? (Score:4, Funny)
Unsafe intercourse (Score:5, Funny)
MS seems to have caught SCO disease.
Re:Like most other IP battles... (Score:5, Funny)
This is REALLY serious (Score:1, Funny)
When MS offers something, beware !
When MS offers something FOR FREE , run !
And unfortunately, this time, most of us have no place to hide.
oh my...... (Score:1, Funny)
I hope I can laugh ... (Score:4, Funny)
SCO doesn't have a deeeeeeeep pocket, MS does !
SCO doesn't have a huuuuugggeee influence over Uncle Sam, MS does !!
In fact, MS is more powerful than
MPAA, RIAA and RedSox combined !
Al Gore (Score:2, Funny)
No!!! (Score:2, Funny)
We are all doomed now.
No problem, use TTCPS! (Score:5, Funny)
I have already spoken to Linus T. who will be imlementing TTCPS in kernel 2.8, but I have released some modules which can be compiled into kernels 2.4 and 2.6 right now. Those of us on BSD can try the Two Steel Cans and a Piece of Cord (TSCPC) protocol but I'm not sure about compatability.
I've also received a letter from SCO's lawyers claiming that the string I used was from their own private ball and I should cease and desist. To counter this I am using twine spun by my own mother from the wool of our own sheep. I still maintain that the string I was using was just like any other piece of string and as SCO has been unable to specify what length they have missing I am not too worried.
Some geeks over at www.ttcpsgeek.org have been experimenting with High-Tensile string and have achieved remarkable increases in bandwidth - expect this to be ported back into TTCPSv2, due for release at the end of February.
Microsoft Internet XP 2005 License (Score:2, Funny)
Re:MS & TCP/IP (Score:2, Funny)
Re:MS & TCP/IP (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Al Gore (Score:5, Funny)
But I thought AL Gore invented the Internet?
Oh, come on. That joke hasn't been funny for 4 years. Maybe you could think of something new?
Hmmm. (Score:2, Funny)
Re:MS & TCP/IP (Score:2, Funny)
Bye!
Microsoft didn't even notice the internet (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Al Gore (Score:4, Funny)
He did, but apparently there was some debate over the matter. Some of the invention forms were incorrectly postmarked, others had pieces missing out of them, and still others claimed that Pat Buchanan invented the Internet. There was a big spectacle, but a Supreme Court decision called a halt to the deliberations and awarded creation of the Internet to Microsoft.
Re:Before the M$ Bashing Begins (Score:5, Funny)
you're saying there's no innovation to be had in the discard protocol? the lazy unix programmer would just take his echo protocol implementation and redirect output to
microsoft doesn't do things like that. they planned ahead. what if you want to tunnel discard over an ipsec tunnel of ipv6? what if you wanted to implement discard via remote method invocation using xml with soap? what if you wanted every application you write to have access to the discard protocol as simply as instantiating an object?
that's why they created the microsoft abstract discard server (ms discard). the ms discard library provides you with an abstract implementation of a general discard server, as well as a fully functional discard client. the discard server is fully input-neutral, and can accept data from many common stream formats. have you ever wanted to run a discard server against a relational database query? probably not. but now you can! this is done easily by using the odbc discard data source bridge (or if you need speed over portability, oci). virtually any data source can be discarded in a clean, multithreaded, scalable fashion. discard is now available enterprise-wide over ldap. do your discard servers need load balancing and failover redundancy? with ms discard, you can take advantage of advanced clustering features and achieve five 9's of uptime from your discard server farm (*requires ms discard clustering server and windows 2003 advanced server pro champion edition).
in short, don't assume that just because the protocol in basic, the implementation can't be bloated and patented.
Re:Part of DOJ settlement (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Before the M$ Bashing Begins (Score:2, Funny)
Sometimes
Do they all sound like little children?
No, only half of them.
Stealing the Internet (Score:2, Funny)
You can bet Al Gore's going to have something to say about that!
Re:MS & TCP/IP (Score:3, Funny)
NetBIOS over TCP/IP
Normally Evil Twat Ballmer Is On Side over Taking Court Proceedings over Intellectual Property.
Re:One stop indemnification? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:FUD (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Before the M$ Bashing Begins (Score:5, Funny)
I hope you feel better now that you've clarified your opinion of the terms TCP, IP and TCP/IP to the rest of us. Boy do we feel stupid.
Good luck with semester 2.
Re:Before the M$ Bashing Begins (Score:3, Funny)
What's it do during the downtime?