Re: Blackboard and IE Patch

[Gary Flynn <flynngn () JMU EDU>]

Bill Betlej wrote:

> Gary,
>         Do mean Eolas?

Oops. Yes. :)

 Are you suggesting this is all some big conspiracy
> episode in the browser wars between Firefox and MS IE? <grin>

No, not at all. Though how a patent infringement claim
against an open source project would be handled does present
interesting issues as does selective enforcement.

I hope this goes through OK. Someone may have patented the idea
of a "reply" button on email clients. If you don't get this,
let me know and I'll cut and paste the response into a new
message. I might have to compose individual messages to each
subscriber if the idea of distributing email through a
centrally maintained list is patented. Hopefully MIME doesn't
infringe on a generic idea to dynamically type and handle
content so your client knows how to handle the message if it
gets there through possibly infringing store and forward and
client/server technology. ;)


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gary Flynn [mailto:flynngn () JMU EDU]
> Subject: Re: [SECURITY] Blackboard and IE Patch
>
> Microsoft changed the way core functionality works. The only blame I can
> place on vendors is not heeding Microsoft's warnings months ago.
>
> From what I understand, the same functionality change could be required
> of other vendors' browsers if they don't pay licensing fees to Ebola.


--
Gary Flynn
Security Engineer
James Madison University
www.jmu.edu/computing/security

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