from the register http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/22647.html
One part of the brief of settlement between McSoft and the DOJ reads "No provision of this Final Judgment shall: 1.Require microsoft to document disclose or license to third parties: (a)portions of API's, Documentation or portions or layers of communication protocols .... (b) any API, interface or other information related to any Microsoft Product if lawfully directed to do so by a government authority of competent jurisdiction." Translated from the legalese this segment of the document basically says that it can go on doing what got it into trouble with the rest of us in the first place. As well as partnering itself with the portions of the law enforcement community who are eager to insert themselves into the process of creating new crimes in cyberspace. That would be creating things as crimes online that are not necessarily crimes in real life. (is telling a friend that some movie sucks a crime? it might become one real soon....after all you are sharing information about a copyrighted information product that the rights holders would not necessarily want to have shared.) Why do I have to find this sort of stuff out from a website int the UK ? Replies should go to [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.efn.org/~laprice ( Community, Cooperation, Consensus http://www.opn.org ( Openness to serendipity, make mistakes http://www.efn.org/~laprice/poems ( but learn from them.(carpe fructus ludi) http://allie.office.efn.org/phpwiki/index.php?OregonPublicNetworking
