Embrace, Extend, Extinguish

[Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

        Yahoo has in interesting story about Miscrosofts
 implementation of kerberos.

        In a move that company detractors said is another sign of its
        infamous "Embrace, Extend, Extinguish" strategy, Microsoft has
        used an open Internet security standard in its Windows 2000
        operating system and made modifications without openly
        documenting its changes.

        Microsoft has incorporated open standard Kerberos security,
        which keeps user passwords from being sent over a network
        where they can be sniffed and stolen, into Windows 2000,
        making its marquee operating system (OS) more competitive with
        Unix.

        But in doing so, it has made changes to Kerberos - producing
        "Microsoft Kerberos, which is proprietary," said Ted Ts'o, who
        helped lead the development team on the network authentication
        protocol with others at the Massachusetts Institute of
        Technology (web.mit.edu/kerberos/www) in the early 1990s.


 Get the full story at:
       <URL:http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/zd/20000228/tc/20000228145.html> 

        The BSD bigots shall probably hate this, but had MIT kerberos been
 under the protection of the GPL, this would not have happened. 

        Microsoft kerberos. Bah.

        manoj
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