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Re: [FYI] /. vs MS
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- Subject: Re: [FYI] /. vs MS
- From: "Axel H Horns" <horns@t-online.de>
- Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 22:50:09 +0100
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On 11 May 00, at 18:55, Ralf Stephan wrote:
> Hoffe das ist ein Hoax.
>
> http://slashdot.org/features/00/05/11/0153247.shtml
> (Microsoft Asks Slashdot To Remove Readers' Posts)
No hoax:
http://www.salon.com/tech/log/2000/05/11/slashdot_censor/index.html
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Embrace, extend, censor
Microsoft asks Slashdot to remove posts revealing copyrighted
information.
- - - - - - - - - - - - By Andrew Leonard
May 11, 2000 | Yet another skirmish has broken out in the ongoing
war between free-software hackers and proprietary-minded corporations
-- and this one promises to be a doozy. On Wednesday, lawyers
representing Microsoft requested the removal of a series of posts on
the bulletin boards at Slashdot, the popular "news for nerds" Web
site.
Citing the provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act,
Microsoft asserted that the Slashdot posts, which reveal information
about Microsoft's proprietary version of a popular security
technology called Kerberos, include "unauthorized reproductions of
Microsoft's copyrighted work" -- as well as information on how to get
around access restrictions protecting Microsoft's "data
specification."
[...]
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