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Post #60,632 by drewk 11/1/02 4:09:27 PM Reply	Damn J. No provision of this Final Judgment shall: 1. Require Microsoft to document, disclose or license to third parties: (a) portions of APIs or Documentation or portions or layers of Communications Protocols the disclosure of which would compromise the security of a particular installation or group of installations of anti-piracy, anti-virus, software licensing, digital rights management, encryption or authentication systems, including without limitation, keys, authorization tokens or enforcement criteria; or (b) any API, interface or other information related to any Microsoft product if lawfully directed not to do so by a governmental agency of competent jurisdiction. Game, set, match. Fuck/ === Microsoft offers them the one thing most business people will pay any price for - the ability to say "we had no choice - everyone's doing it that way." -- [link\|http://z.iwethey.org/forums/render/content/show?contentid=38978\|Andrew Grygus]
Post #60,636 by bepatient 11/1/02 4:14:03 PM Reply	I'd say thats a loophole.. ...that you could drive the earth through. You were born...and so you're free...so Happy Birthday! _{Laurie Anderson} [link\|mailto:bepatient@aol.com\|BePatient]
Post #60,637 by inthane-chan 11/1/02 4:15:02 PM Reply	Fergit the earth... I'm takin' the whole farkin' UNIVERSE for a spin, right through that loophole, SIDEWAYS. End of world rescheduled for day after tomorrow. Something should probably be done. Please advise.
Post #60,678 by Brandioch 11/1/02 11:20:12 PM Reply	Hmmmm, legal semanitics, maybe? ...the disclosure of which would compromise the security... Hmmmmmm. But, that would mean that the protocol, api, whatever was NOT "secure". Okay, everyone understands public/private keys, right? Knowing HOW they work and the encryption algorithm does NOT compromise their security, right? Unless what they are doing is insecure in the first place.
Post #60,980 by drewk 11/4/02 9:11:50 AM Reply	Loophole the second J.No provision of this Final Judgment shall: 2.Prevent Microsoft from conditioning any license of any API, Documentation or Communications Protocol related to anti-piracy systems, anti-virus technologies, license enforcement mechanisms, authentication/authorization security, or third party intellectual property protection mechanisms of any Microsoft product to any person or entity on the requirement that the licensee: (c)meets reasonable, objective standards established by Microsoft for certifying the authenticity and viability of its business The italics are nonsense words that might as well not be there. Microsoft is free to define them as they wish. Microsoft's lawyers will again simply read the bolded sections in this massive "or" statement. === Microsoft offers them the one thing most business people will pay any price for - the ability to say "we had no choice - everyone's doing it that way." -- [link\|http://z.iwethey.org/forums/render/content/show?contentid=38978\|Andrew Grygus]
Post #61,130 by ben_tilly 11/5/02 6:49:54 AM Reply	Interpretation If we (ie Microsoft) are in competition with you, then you are going to die and therefore are not viable. Cheers, Ben "Career politicians are inherently untrustworthy; if it spends its life buzzing around the outhouse, it\ufffds probably a fly." - [link\|http://www.nationalinterest.org/issues/58/Mead.html\|Walter Mead]

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