Alternative?

Alternative?

Posted Sep 18, 2003 7:04 UTC (Thu) by ekj (subscriber, #1524)
In reply to: Alternative? by jamienk
Parent article: An opening for OpenOffice.org

Several of these are principially impossible to do, if people, as Shamir said, "Hold the keys to their own computer".

If your computer is capable of showing a document to you today, without having to go beg some central cerver for permission, then it can also do it tomorrow.

If your computer can display a text for you on the screen, then it can also send the very same text to the printer.

The only way to prevent this is to take away peoples control over their own computers. The computer *could* send the document to the printer, but it *won't*, even if you ask it to. Because it is obeying it's master, and this master is NOT you, even though it's your computer.

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