:eWeek: Is Microsoft Ready to Assert IP Rights Over the Internet?
eWeek: Is Microsoft Ready to Assert IP Rights Over the Internet? Nov 7, 2004, 00 :00 UTC (10 Talkback[s]) (7204 reads) (Other stories by Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols)
"Has Microsoft been trying to retroactively claim IP (intellectual property) rights over many of the Internet's basic protocols? Larry J. Blunk, senior engineer for networking research and development at Merit Network Inc., believes that might be the case.
"Blunk expressed these concerns about Microsoft's Royalty Free Protocol License Agreement in a recent note to the IETF's Intellectual Property Rights Working Group. Specifically, Blunk suggested that Microsoft seemed to be claiming IP rights to many vital Internet protocols. And by so doing, 'Microsoft is injecting a significant amount of unwarranted uncertainty and doubt regarding non-Microsoft implementations of these protocols,' Blunk said..."
