Reader's Observation: Microsoft 'Innovates' Wake-on-LAN (and Renames it`Sleep Proxy')
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2010-06-13 10:21:56 UTC
- Modified: 2010-06-13 10:21:56 UTC
Summary: Microsoft needs to wake up and realise that it merely imitates other people's work and then claims credit for it
In the following new article, IDG forgets to point out that there is extensive prior art:
From the article:
Microsoft's sleep proxy lowers PC energy use
[...]
Microsoft researchers have slashed desktop energy use with a sleep proxy system that maintains a PC's network presence even when it is turned off or put into standby mode.
[...]
Although Microsoft is using the system with Windows, it is designed to be agnostic to the operating system.
Other operating systems have had this functionality for many years. They don't need Microsoft's so-called 'innovation'. Has Microsoft attempted to patent this yet?
Microsoft was asleep (as in 'sleep proxy') while
its competition was innovating.
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Comments
Needs Sunlight
2010-06-14 11:00:20
It's the 'ecosystem', stupid: "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not."
dyfet
2010-06-13 16:56:25
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_Proxy_Service
The proxy simply sends the WOL packet to the mac address of the sleeping target when it needs to be awoken and otherwise just answers arp requests on behalf of the sleeper, so there is nothing non-standard, and the code is already OSS. It is in fact also a standard part of zeroconfig.
dyfet
2010-06-13 16:57:24
Dr. Roy Schestowitz
2010-06-13 18:03:14