There's another possibility [LWN.net]

There's another possibility

Posted Aug 2, 2005 19:45 UTC (Tue) by mmarq (guest, #2332)
In reply to: There's another possibility by felixfix
Parent article: Microsoft's DRM vision

" Microsoft can put in all the DRM they want, but when people find they can't play CDs under normal circumstances, if they find out they can only play their rental DVD on one machine, and then only once "

You are forgetting about "global revocation list". they will allow people to do all that as long as they run only windows. Better they will force people to run only MS approved stuff, since common end users are not that so much more stupid then professional developers ans sellers since those later ones dont rebel to the point of adapting and overcome, and you expect end users to do so.

Soon will be the notion that only MS approved stuff work, and even as soon you put Firefox on it, the system can came to a very reduced functionality state.

Then it will be clear that the open source philosophy on Linux will be an effective proprietary party for big vendors, thought the code *is* open, and zealots of any kind only see this openess and forget that real freedoom only cames from controlling your live not from be habble to run all over the world, no matter how nice this last possibility looks.

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