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University Of California Berkeley

Legal strategy is job one at Microsoft, not security. Yesterday's news that the Active-X security flaw in IE (which also impacts Java Applets) was to be addressed by requiring coders to rework their ASP and JSP pages so that calls to components were burried in scripts is related to the article.

My associates and I suspect that by burying the calls in script the mechanism owned by the University of California at Berkeley to execute Active-X components and Java Applets from a web pages becomes a derivitive work not subject to a legal case Microsoft lost.

Microsoft managers prefer to burden customers with countless hours of reworking ASP and JSP pages rather than doing the correct thing - which is paying the University of California the 580 million courts have determined is the value taken.

Come on Microsoft management. At least consider doing the right thing or try to vocalize why this is good for your customers and the nation. Perhaps we are not seeing something that you do.

Frank L. Mighetto CCP

Posted by: mighetto   Posted on: 06/09/06 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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