Microsoft will lay claim to whole Internet
Found on The Inquirer on Sunday, 07 November 2004
A networking research and development outfit claims that the Mighty Microsoft is planning to take over the internet by retroactively claiming IP (intellectual property) rights over many of the Internet's basic protocols.
Merit Network's Larry Blunk said that having a quick squint at Microsoft's Royalty Free Protocol License Agreement, the software colossus seemed to be suddenly claiming IP rights to many vital Internet protocols.
Some of the RFC protocols include the TCP/IP protocols and the DNS (Domain Name System), are key bits of the Internet's network infrastructure.
He notes that Vole does not specify how this list of protocols was derived and to what extent it has investigated their possible rights holdings over them.
Yeah, buy everything you can and try to dominate the world with ridiculous patents and IP monopolies. MS sure is doing the best it can to make sure that people hate them from the bottom of their hearts.