[Eug-lug] Narrowing Vistas, content protection, hardware and the death of open source in the "consumer" world.

[Allen Brown]

I doubt that many large companies will find this acceptable.
How many banks will sign on to a system which can bring all
their computers down at any moment?
That presents IBM with a great opportunity to promote Linux.
If Microshaft stays the course this could be the watershed
event to bring Linux into the mainstream.
-- 
Allen Brown  abrown at peak.org  http://brown.armoredpenguin.com/~abrown/
   We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in
   the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that
   his wife is beautiful and his children smart. ---H.L.Mencken

larry price wrote:
> As if you needed some other reasons to hate Vista
> 
> http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_cost.txt
> 
> Stealthily attempting to render open source drivers impossible, since
> if you have access to the hardware at the level required by a driver,
> you own the box and can copy what you please...
> 
> HDTV with open source tools? fuggedaboutit.
> 
> The hardware license revocation aspect also strikes me as being
> fraught with the potential for exciting new forms of breakage.
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