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Scripting News: About the Halloween Memo by Jim Whitehead

My intent… is to rebut the DAV-specific content in the
memo.

… there currently exist three WebDAV servers and one WebDAV
client which were not developed by Microsoft.

The Halloween memo also discusses making proprietary extensions
to existing protocols as a means to de-commoditize them. In
particular, this discussion, in close proximity to the text about
WebDAV, raised the question of whether WebDAV has been designed in
such a way to make it susceptible to proprietary extension. It has
not.


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