On Thursday 11 April 2002 10:32 pm, Michael J McGonagle wrote: > Microsoft tried to do this with Kermit several years ago, the added a > single element to the standard and then they tried to patent the > documentation. The means that they used to distribute the package was as > a Windows Executable, thus tryying to protect "their" work. Someone had > dearchived the files and posted them on SlashDot. Microsoft appearently > tried to get them to remove the documents, but seeing as how they were > things that were pretty much in public usage (I don't know if Kermit was > in the Public Domain or not).
That was Kerberos, which is under an MIT X-style license. -- Lamar Owen WGCR Internet Radio 1 Peter 4:11
