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Thursday, May 18, 2000

Slashdot's Lawyers Respond to Microsoft -- 4:38 pm CST, Update by A.T. Hun

The lawyers representing Andover.Net, the parent company of Slashdot, have submitted a formal response to Microsoft's demands for Slashdot to remove posts dealing with their proprietary extensions to the Kerberos open-source authentication protocol (story). The response is more of a series of questions intending to prove whether or not Microsoft has any right to make such demands. The questions are logical and get to the heart of the matter, but I question if they actually have any legal bearing. It will be interesting to see how far M$ is willing to push this, given their current legal problems. More to come, I'm sure.

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