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Re: Embrace, Extend, Extinguish

Hi,

        Ob Linux: If you have a UNIX based kerneberos realm, you can
 still get w2k clients to use your UNIX kerberos servers by following
 the recipe here:
 <URL:http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q232/1/70.ASP?LNG=ENG&SA=ALLKB&FR=0>
 Thus you don't have to go to a all w2k shop and retain full kerberos
 coverage. 

>>"Arun" == Arun Sharma <adsharma@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

 Arun> Another troll huh ?

        Pot. Kettle. Black.

 Arun> GPL can only "protect" code, not ideas [1] Microsoft will still
 Arun> be "free" to implement their own kerberos extensions.

        They would have been forced to open the extensions so people
 could write compatibility in UNIX servers.

 Arun> Do you have any evidence to suggest that Microsoft used MIT code ? 

        Actually, yes. Microsoft did not write the code for kerberos,
 or their RPC, from scratch. They joined OSF and took code from
 them. And this is not conjecture.  Even microsoft is not stupid
 enough to reimlemnt something when they are presented with
 unprotected code ;-) 

        Anyway, in the past MS had had a terrible track record
 implementing security (see: http://www.counterpane.com/pptp.html),
 and I don't thikn they could have even come close to creating
 something like Kerberos.

        manoj
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