In a redesign of the MSDN site a few months ago, the location of the Simple List Extensions spec moved: [link]
It’ll move one more time to a more stable location in the new couple weeks. I’ll post on when that happens (and I’ll try to make sure we have a redirect in place this time).
Thanks, Sean, for responding. But the core questions still remain: how do these two specs inter-relate? What is the recommended mechanism for providing feedback?
Speaking of things that never change, this sentence from the Licensing Information section should send everyone screaming from the room (emphasis mine):
If Microsoft later becomes aware of any such necessary patent claims, Microsoft also agrees to offer a royalty-free patent license on reasonable and non-discriminatory terms and conditions to any such patent claims for the purpose of publishing and consuming the extensions set out in the specification.
Never mind the fact that “royalty-free” and “reasonable and non-discriminatory” are contradictory. Never mind that Microsoft is the only company in the world to use them together in one sentence. Let’s be clear here: Microsoft reserves the right to use patents to prevent open source implementations from interoperating with their own proprietary implementation. Of course, they won’t bother until someone puts in the time building an open source implementation that looks like it might challenge them. Then they’ll bother.
This reminds me of the social denial-of-service attack, only against the entire open source community. Any time you spend implementing this latest Microsoft “extension” is time you’re not spending on something useful, like open standards. Microsoft has finally figured out how to fight open source: keep all the potential developers busy chasing chimeras.
The non-Microsoft people involved in this travesty should have known better.
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This reminds me of the social denial-of-service attack, only against the entire open source community.
Reminds me of it, too. Now all of the OpenPeople will spend months +1ing each other’s bad ideas in an effort to be slightly different from the thing that was written without their “help”.
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