Well, they made the effort, but the Microsoft patent/license issues appear to have completely killed off the MARID group. I’d guess that Microsoft decided that if they couldn’t have their patent and license included in the standard, then the standard shouldn’t get a chance.

I’m rather miffed about that, I already get over 300 SPAM a day, so anything that stood a chance at stopping or lessening that is a fine thing.

Read about the death of MARID at Eweek or Groklaw.

If you every find yourself in a conversation with someone from Microsoft, perhaps you should inform them that sometimes the needs of the Internet at large outweigh their need to line their pockets with everyone else’s money.

Regards

Franki

This article was posted on Friday, September 24th, 2004 at 11:03 am