IP: RE: New Windows XP Feature Can Re-Edit Others' Sites (WSJ Story)

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

> From: "Paul E. Robichaux" <paul () robichaux net>
> To: <farber () cis upenn edu>
>
> David, Mossberg's article is FUD. First of all, smart tags have indeed 
> been made public: they ship as part of Office XP. Second, they DO NOT 
> alter the contents of actual pages. They merely allow the addition of 
> extra links through a user-controlled mechanism. I posted a long rebuttal 
> at 
> <http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=01/06/07/1252227&threshold=1&commentsort=0&mode=thread&pid=83#329>http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=01/06/07/1252227&threshold=1&commentsort=0&mode=thread&pid=83#329.
>
> There's a ton of information on how this feature actually works at 
> <http://msdn.microsoft.com/office>http://msdn.microsoft.com/office, but 
> the bottom line is that (apart from the IMHO bogus "droit moral" argument 
> that Mossberg is making) it's a tempest in a teapot.
>
> Interestingly, NBCi has a similar tool that it's licensed from Flyswat 
> (see <http://quicklink.com>http://quicklink.com). For some reason, 
> Mossberg doesn't mention that, even though NBC is allied with both 
> Microsoft and Dow Jones.
>
> -----Original Message-----



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