How interesting... "kimhav, Global Moderator, Hero Member" wrote the following earlier:
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We need to stop hitching our wagon on anything to do with MS and their (usually broken) promises
I can only agree with Robert that I don't think that MS release of documents will have any bigger effect on the open source community and [...]
Unfortunately, virtually every Open Source initiative out there is commercial in nature... one does not have to charge money for a venture to be commercial.
Agreed, by keeping its thumb pressed on this issue, MS babbling amount to an attempt to appease the regulators:
"However, companies that want to commercially distribute implementations of the protocols still must obtain a patent license from Microsoft, it said."...seems to me that we are humoring another one from the MS pond --and it may go for a long time due to the severity of the brainwashing previously exhibited by those.