17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
Timothy C. May says:
The Microsoft thing may be going down a similar track. The Microsoft paralegal who confirmed to me yesterday (via Blanc Weber, who can attest to what I'm saying) that MS is indeed pursuing SKE claimed that this is primarily to meet export laws and will not apply, he claims, to U.S. users.
By the way, just so everyone knows, I understand (based on a conversation with Steve Kent, who should be a reliable source for this) that Microsoft is one of the suppliers to the upcoming DMS, or defense messaging system. The DMS will be using Tessera -- it means that Microsoft and several other firms are going to be the largest purveyors of escrowed software in the world. Perry