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Re: Blackboard and IE Patch
From: Gary Flynn <flynngn () JMU EDU>
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 11:25:40 -0400
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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- Blackboard and IE Patch Allen, Jon D. (Apr 18)
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- Re: Blackboard and IE Patch Keith Schoenefeld (Apr 18)
- Re: Blackboard and IE Patch David Lundy (Apr 18)
- Re: Blackboard and IE Patch Gary Flynn (Apr 18)
- Re: Blackboard and IE Patch Cal Frye (Apr 18)
- Re: Blackboard and IE Patch Gary Flynn (Apr 18)
- Re: Blackboard and IE Patch Bill Betlej (Apr 19)
- Re: Blackboard and IE Patch Gary Flynn (Apr 19)