Slashdot Reponds to Microsoft

Microsoft is trying to force the Slashdot site to remove postings regarding Microsoft’s attempted co-opting of the Kerberos security standard.

Here’s Slashdot’s reply.


Digital Millennium Copyright Enforcement

The first of two days of hearings on the onerous Digital Millennium Copyright Act got under way yesterday at Stanford University. Librarians and academics got the floor the first day to explain why this law is terrible and why, even if it’s constitutional (a dubious proposition, by some accounts), some exceptions should be carved out.

Coverage:

  • ZDNet: Techies wage war on copyright cartels
  • Wired News: Digi-Security Act Has Its Day


    Microsoft’s Self-Destructive E-mail

    The Register: ‘Pissy emails from billg’ – MS exec sinks teeth into Gates

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