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[FYI] Microsoft Could Hold Passport to Net
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- Subject: [FYI] Microsoft Could Hold Passport to Net
- From: "Axel H Horns" <horns@ipjur.com>
- Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2001 19:48:57 +0200
http://www.thestandard.com/article/0,1902,27685,00.html
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Microsoft Could Hold Passport to Net
By Dominic Gates
Jul 03 2001 02:51 PM PDT
Rivals fear Redmond's authentication service could make the software
giant the one and only centralized power on the Web.
UPDATE The Internet is by its nature adaptive, chaotic and creative,
a virtual territory that no one owns and with no central point of
control. Could Microsoft change that?
The software giant's competitors think so. Rivals are marshalling
arguments to influence upcoming settlement talks with the government
and block Microsoft from becoming a de facto centralized power on the
Internet.
[...]
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