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Re: Administrivia: No More Microsoft Bulletins
From: Elias Levy <aleph1 () SECURITYFOCUS COM>
Date: Sat, 9 Dec 2000 11:34:00 -0800
A quick follow up on my earlier message. It seems a few people believe I said Microsoft is claiming copyright on the vulnerability information in their bulletins. That is not the case. Please reread my earlier message. Microsoft is enforcing their copyright on the bulletin itself, in its web form in particular. They are perfectly in their right to ask me to stop redistributing them even if it seems counter to basic idea of a security bulletin. Still anyone, myself included, can read the bulletins and reword the information for our own uses. Some people suggested that I might have the right to post the bulletins under the copyright fair use doctrine. I doubt this as is the copying of a work as a whole. In any case if they don't wish me to redistribute the bulletins I will abide by their wishes the same way if I asked someone to stop redistributing my work I hope they would agree to do so. Microsoft has a sound reason for wishing to centralize the repository of their bulletins - so that their customers will always obtains the latest up to date information. But I believe the negative factors of such change far outweigh their positive ones. This is were we disagree. So please lets keep the conspiracy theories to the minimum. They are trying to do the right thing - but in the wrong way. I actually wrote that message while sitting at the Microsoft campus during the SafeNet summit they put together this week. It was an invitation only event and Microsoft did not have to invite me. At the very least they are trying which is more that can be said of many other vendors. -- Elias Levy SecurityFocus.com http://www.securityfocus.com/ Si vis pacem, para bellum
Current thread:
- Administrivia: No More Microsoft Bulletins Elias Levy (Dec 08)
- cache cookies? cypherstar (Dec 13)
- Re: cache cookies? Kee Hinckley (Dec 14)
- Re: cache cookies? Adam Shostack (Dec 14)
- Re: cache cookies? Florian Weimer (Dec 14)
- Re: cache cookies? Robert Bihlmeyer (Dec 15)
- Re: cache cookies? Florian Weimer (Dec 16)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: Administrivia: No More Microsoft Bulletins Elias Levy (Dec 10)
- cache cookies? cypherstar (Dec 13)