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What's the fuss about?

What's the fuss about?

Posted Sep 11, 2003 22:16 UTC (Thu) by zonker (guest, #7867)
In reply to: What's the fuss about? by Dom2
Parent article: An opening for OpenOffice.org

the insurance company demanded it.

Okay, so the PHB at the insurance company asked for it rather than the PHB at the company itself. Either way, I can see a PHB demanding that everything be encrypted with IRM. If it's the insurance company, it's even worse because that would probably leave no room for an employee to turn off IRM when they don't feel it's necessary.

Even worse, I can easily see a scenario where Microsoft cuts a sweetheart deal with one or two insurance companies persuading them to require IRM to cover a company...


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