* Fabián Rodríguez <[email protected]>: > On 2012-03-01 03:08, Patrick Ben Koetter wrote: > [...]> automx unifies two proprietary standards from Microsoft and > Mozilla. > > I am curious why you are calling both autoconfiguration ways > "proprietary". Can you clarify that ? > > I don't see anything proprietary about Thunderbird's autoconfig: > https://wiki.mozilla.org/Thunderbird:Autoconfiguration
You are correct. I used the term the wrong way. I did not mean proprietary as
wikipedia defines it
"In telecommunications, a proprietary protocol is a communications
protocol owned by a single organization or individual.[1]"
-- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proprietary_protocol
or as most others (probably) understand it.
What I meant to say was "they don't use a common, standardized
mechanism/protocol" to do it, but each do their own thing.
> And I can't find references to Microsoft putting any
> restrictions/licensing on their autoconfiguration.
>
> This is important, specially in enterprise settings where such details
> blow up in an admin's face *after* prototyping/testing/implementation.
Both standards have been layed open and are well documented.
> Making this particularly clear on the site (automx's) would also help
> clear any confusion.
>
> Thanks for any further information.
I hope I've clarified it.
p@rick
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