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David Megginson wrote: > Yes, absolutely, and to cut off any anti-MS flames I'd like to mention > right now that Microsoft has been in touch with me several times... Not a flame. Just a word of caution. Microsoft has been in the business of coopting open standards for a long time. Right now much of higher ed is openly hostile to Microsoft for ap- parently working in good faith with MIT on integrating Kerberos with W2K and AD, then ultimately extending the protocol in a proprietary way, then (to top it all off) declaring the extension proprietary - and forcing ev- eryone who wants to use the specs on their extension to agree to nondis- closure. I'm sure you've had some good relationships with Microsoft engineers. So did the MIT guys, I gather. So while it would be silly to start a flame war, I'm not sure we're doing anyone a service trying to head off open discussion of Microsoft's (and other vendors') roles in the XML community. -- Richard Goerwitz Richard_Goerwitz@B... *************************************************************************** This is xml-dev, the mailing list for XML developers. To unsubscribe, mailto:majordomo@x...&BODY=unsubscribe%20xml-dev List archives are available at http://xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ ***************************************************************************
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