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Free and Open Source Software will blossom overnight...
Free and Open Source Software will blossom overnight...
Posted Mar 8, 2006 16:20 UTC (Wed) by rknop (guest, #66)In reply to: Free and Open Source Software will blossom overnight... by niner
Parent article: Jon Maddog Hall on Linux, saving money and ruling the world (ComputerWorld)
The saddest thing about that is that illegal copying will never be effectively prevented. They've been trying since (at least) the early 80's, and copy protection gets broken quickly.
-Rob
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Free and Open Source Software will blossom overnight...
Posted Mar 8, 2006 18:25 UTC (Wed) by ekj (subscriber, #1524) [Link]
The sad thing is that there's no way whatsoever that illegal copying of software will be effectively stopped without the same actors winning a stranglehold on *data* including uses that are perfectly legal today.I'd welcome a world where it was impractical to pirate Photoshop. But not if the cost of that is a world where it's impossible to use a PVR to timeshift, impractical to make your own music-discs that'll play anywhere. Impossible to legally buy and download music on an open platform (this is already today pretty much the case...) A world where first sale has fallen, copyrigths are (practically) forever. Fair use is a moot point (like it already is for media protected by DRM due to the DMCA) and so on.
Free and Open Source Software will blossom overnight...
Posted Mar 8, 2006 23:24 UTC (Wed) by rknop (guest, #66) [Link]
None of that will be impossible... just illegal. It's going to be a sad world, with more and more central control of what you can do legally, but you'll always be able to get a pirate copy of Photoshop if you know where to look.
-Rob
Free and Open Source Software will blossom overnight...
Posted Mar 9, 2006 17:54 UTC (Thu) by mmarq (guest, #2332) [Link]
"" None of that will be impossible... just illegal ""
Turning tediuos reading of many pointed urls and replys, short... it is possible!
As posted in a coment of mine, down in this thread, password protected object capabilitys are the "Real Mcoy" turning possible a web-services centered paradigma where users have total control of their machines, but where Adobe could have control of their applications and even distribute freely a demo photoshop, and sell object password protected features to it, on the internet, without fear.
Free and Open Source Software will blossom overnight...
Posted Mar 9, 2006 18:31 UTC (Thu) by mmarq (guest, #2332) [Link]
Geezz i seem to forgot... law!... here it is http://www.caplet.com/security/futurelaw/index.htm
Free and Open Source Software will blossom overnight...
Posted Mar 9, 2006 17:31 UTC (Thu) by mmarq (guest, #2332) [Link]
Try Object Capabilitys... which could be a *well fit* for an OS based on a exokernel like the Xen's Nemesis one: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/Research/SRG/netos/old-projects/p... ... the point is "you" dont have to start from ground zero!
http://www.cap-lore.com/CapTheory/Orthodox.html
http://discuss.foresight.org/~foresight/CSFactForum.html
http://erights.org/talks/skynet/index.html
http://srl.cs.jhu.edu/pubs/SRL2003-02.pdf
Plenty more in here :
http://www.cap-lore.com/CapTheory/index.html
and worst... if the M$ DRM Palladium based push, of so many talks, is in a way a capability system http://www.cap-lore.com/CapTheory/NGSCB/DRM.html, they are right now researching a new advanced model in a exo/micro kernel style full of protected dominiums(SIP in M$ talk) as in Xen, http://research.microsoft.com/os/singularity/ , but in a SASOS architecture and with orthogonal persistence possibilitys.