MeeGo beyond the mobile device [LWN.net]

MeeGo beyond the mobile device

Posted Nov 18, 2010 11:22 UTC (Thu) by ortalo (subscriber, #4654)
Parent article: MeeGo beyond the mobile device

Amusing article patch:
Access to home content, *also* "require some security mechanism with which" device owners "can implement mandatory access control on specific content".
This does not include DRM, but I'd be delighted to see it include software modules (or even hardware-chain-of-trust) that can prevent unauthorized third parties from accessing personal content or driving general-purpose hardware.

I wonder why device builders do not focus more on end users concerns.

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MeeGo beyond the mobile device

Posted Nov 23, 2010 21:32 UTC (Tue) by n8willis (editor, #43041) [Link]

Not to be too cynical, but my prediction would be that the moment someone in the video entertainment industry demonstrably makes a single dime by putting "end users concerns" front and center, the race will be on.

Nate
PS - which I *do* predict is bound to happen some day; once companies saw other companies making money selling un-encrypted audio files, a glut of competing businesses started to do it, too.