http://www.xmlgrrl.com/blog/archives/2006/06/15/a-promise-to-you-dear-developers/ XML, identity, crafting, and other tangled musings Fri, 21 Nov 2008 03:17:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 http://www.xmlgrrl.com/blog/archives/2006/06/15/a-promise-to-you-dear-developers/#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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