Microsoft's DRM vision

Microsoft's DRM vision

Posted Aug 2, 2005 19:08 UTC (Tue) by mmarq (guest, #2332)
In reply to: Microsoft's DRM vision by JoeBuck
Parent article: Microsoft's DRM vision

" Better keep obsessing "

You know what ?... you might be intirely right, because it might very well be no alternative!

Noaday, as before, it is very difficult to encounter *independent* hardware reviews with systems running Linux. When MS DRM schemes kicks in heavly it might be almost impossible to run any hardware besides those runned and tested by the Linux development party. In all this there is perhaps a 'force window' to make hardware manufactors open source more of their stuff, but the MS logo and certification policy is build to counter this by requiring a proportional fee, enough for cleaning the competition arena(their speciality) for the big boys and make them comply(what they want), leaving only in dire strait the smaller and almost unheard of the hardware manufactors. Everybody wins in software/hardware arena as prices tend to rise a little, and honest end users on open source with multimedia requirements will be totally screwed!

* i will not be glad to run an almost exact official copy of Linux tree on a Biostar Mobo, would you ? "

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