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Experts question Microsoft's Caller ID patents | |
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| Time: 09:43 EST/14:43 GMT | News Source: InfoWorld | Posted By: Byron Hinson | ||
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Just a week after Microsoft Corp.'s Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates unveiled his company's plan for securing e-mail communications, leading e-mail authorities, legal experts and at least one Internet service provider (ISP) are expressing concerns about the e-mail sender authentication plan, known as Caller ID. | ||
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| #1 By 3339 (64.160.58.135) at 3/5/2004 5:00:49 PM |
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What are you reading? I see a rather detailed story:
"However, Microsoft's claim that it owns patents around Caller ID and its decision to license the technology to third parties, rather than submit it to an Internet standards body, have riled e-mail experts and domain owners, some of whom said they worry about a power grab by the Redmond, Washington, company and are wary of signing on to the new system." ""Given the license they're offering, it's clearly a problem," said John Levine of the Internet Engineering Task Force's (IETF's) Anti Spam Research Group. Like some others, Levine said he is concerned because Microsoft has not said what technology its patents cover. He also took issue with its assertion in the license agreement that Caller ID licenses cannot be transferred from one party to another, leaving the job of assigning licenses to Microsoft." ""The way the license is written, you can't read (Microsoft's) intentions," he said. "They could stop giving out (Caller ID) licenses at any time, or suddenly say that Caller ID is bundled with Windows."" "Microsoft declined to answer questions about what its Caller ID patent claims cover." ""Microsoft wants to do more than merely give (Caller ID) away, they also want to make sure nobody else can profit from it," said Steve Frank, a partner in the patent and intellectual property group of the law firm Testa, Hurwitz & Thibeault LLP in Boston." "While Microsoft's intentions may be benign, the company's reliance on individual license agreements with domain owners is unconventional, especially if the intention is to encourage broad Internet adoption of Caller ID, Frank said." ""The traditional way to do this is not through reciprocal licensing but through a standards body that has its own rules for how people can develop the initial technology and exploit improvements," he said." "So far, Microsoft has given no indication as to whether it will consider turning Caller ID over to a standards body, Levine said. As it stands, the company's licensing model for Caller ID does not conform to any of the IETF's policies for handling patents, he said." You need MORE? |
| #2 By 3339 (64.160.58.135) at 3/5/2004 5:37:25 PM |
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Jesus, don't know how a site like this works?
My God! It's a good thing you didn't make this same comment for every other summary... |
| #3 By 6253 (24.1.206.27) at 3/6/2004 1:51:56 AM |
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I can't believe it took a week for the journalists to find some "legal experts and at least one Internet service provider" who could express "concerns."
As soon as reporters submit a story, they're hitting the speed dial, looking for somebody to spin it another way. That way you don't really have to find more news. You just rehash it with whatever twist you can find. People who signed up for free subscriptions to computer magazines and newspapers get these calls (if they were dumb enough to oversell their authority so much that they come up in the reporters' query of the database) and don't want to look dumb, like they've got no opinion. |
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