Microsoft Takes Linux For A Test Drive (TechWeb) [LWN.net]

Microsoft Takes Linux For A Test Drive (TechWeb)

Posted Aug 1, 2003 3:58 UTC (Fri) by piman (subscriber, #8957)
In reply to: Microsoft Takes Linux For A Test Drive (TechWeb) by mmarq
Parent article: Microsoft Takes Linux For A Test Drive (TechWeb)

DRM that can be shut off is no good; either it means that content publishers will release for DRM that can't be shut off, or shutting off the DRM will prevent you from using the content (this is how Palladium works, basically). The only real solution is to eliminate DRM completely; since we can't prevent people from coding DRM, instead, we need to make it legal to crack DRM. The real solution isn't to develop an "open DRM platform", but to oppose the DMCA or similar laws.

Interesting that chose ACPI as an open standard; It is, but Microsoft was also heavily involved in its creation. Generalizations get you nowhere.

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Microsoft Takes Linux For A Test Drive (TechWeb)

Posted Aug 1, 2003 19:18 UTC (Fri) by mmarq (guest, #2332) [Link]

NO, NO, f??k applications and OSes that depend exclusivly on DRM,... the idea of allowing them is only because some people might need them... dont forget that, now is clear, that you can have a superior server and a superior desktop based only on "open-Source"!... and you dont put DRM in an application that has the code "open" because it dosent make sense!, and much less for "Open-Format" content(web, pictures,sound, video),... it only makes sense in cases of allowing Open Source to communicate with applications and content that have DRM but provide a "PUBLIC KEY or LINUX KEY" - ( i'm thinking of photoshop,web, pictures,sound, video,...)

If applications and content that have DRM but do not communicate whit other applications and content whitout DRM (opposite of all Open-Source applications and all Open-Format content), "IS THE GENERAL STANDARD" than M$ has already won, a "we" better start to dismantle WWW consortium, GNU, OSDL,... because using computers is, at least, from the very beginning a flud of private keys autentication... and theres no "CRACKING" that can save it!

But if things go better for the public side, you'll have "Open" dominating and you can have DRM, because no one, beside M$, is going to close himself in the cold.