OSDL Position Paper on SCO and Linux [Slashdot]

This is why lawsuits of the form that SCO appears to be threatening[~] against users of copyrighted works for infringement damages[~]do not actually happen. Imagine the literary equivalent of SCO[base ']s current bluster: Publishing house A alleges that the bestselling novel by Author X topping the charts from Publisher B plagiarizes its own more obscure novel by Author Y. [base "]But,[per thou] the chairman of Publisher A announces at a news conference, [base "]we[base ']re not suing Author X or Publisher B; we[base ']re only suing all the people who bought X[base ']s book. They have to pay us for a license to read the book immediately, or we[base ']ll come after them.[per thou] That doesn[base ']t happen, because that[base ']s not the law.

That's what I've been telling you!

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End of the road for SMTP?. The pioneering e-mail protocol is under intense scrutiny by its critics, its co-authors and by standards bodies trying to rescue the Internet from overdosing on spam. [CNET News.com]

This is the right solution. Simply tell everybody: "Starting this date we will not accept email from non authenticated SMTPs." It would also be the end of some anonymous remailers. It will still be possible, but only accepting more responsibility. SPAM on the other hand will be unlikely, because for every person that receive your message could tell you what they think of you. Getting 10 millions messages in a day ain't easy...

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