http://www.xmlgrrl.com/blog/2006/06/15/a-promise-to-you-dear-developers/ Tangled musings on identity, privacy, trust, and suchlike Sat, 08 Oct 2011 19:31:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.xmlgrrl.com/blog/2006/06/15/a-promise-to-you-dear-developers/comment-page-1/#comment-11701 Pushing String » Microsoft’s new promise: a welcome development Tue, 12 Sep 2006 23:03:40 +0000 http://www.xmlgrrl.com/blog/archives/2006/06/15/a-promise-to-you-dear-developers/#comment-11701 [...] I like that they went and called it a “promise”, much as I did when announcing Sun’s similar promise on the SAML2 standard and the Web SSO Interop specs in this post in June. For some reason, I’ve noticed that non-lawyers get spooked by anything called a “covenant not to sue”, I suppose because it contains the “s-word”. So this clear language and the deep assurances to developers that Microsoft has offered today are very welcome indeed, and a huge contribution to what is shaping up to be a trend. [...] [...] I like that they went and called it a “promise”, much as I did when announcing Sun’s similar promise on the SAML2 standard and the Web SSO Interop specs in this post in June. For some reason, I’ve noticed that non-lawyers get spooked by anything called a “covenant not to sue”, I suppose because it contains the “s-word”. So this clear language and the deep assurances to developers that Microsoft has offered today are very welcome indeed, and a huge contribution to what is shaping up to be a trend. [...]

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