On Tue, 19 February 2002, Sean Farley wrote: > > On Tue, 19 Feb 2002 12:17, Roland wrote: > > > At 09:07 PM 2/18/02 -0500, Anthony Taylor wrote: > > <snip> > > > >Take, for instance, Microsoft's attempted hijacking of the Kerberos > > >protocol. MS almost took an accepted standard, and almost perverted it > > > > Well, I think we are still better off as when M$ would have created their > > own protcol from scratch. They certainly have the money to do that. The way > > it is now, we just have to implement the extensions to be able to use > > M$-Kerberos. I don't see where the BSD license has brought any kind of > > disadvantage here. > > Actually, the open-sourced implementation changed their specification > and forced Microsoft into explaining what they changed, but my memory > about it is not the greatest. > > Sean > -------------- > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Yes.. they published their change... but they said in the same time that you are not allowed to implement it anywhere, because the changes are copyright-ed by them. It is basicaly the same as their "shared source" approach: you can see it but you are not allowed to use it. Igor
