By patenting the DRMOS, only M$ will be allowed to create such a beast
(OK, they could license the patent without restrictions -- pardon me
while I pick myself up off the floor). This means that the rest of the
planet's OSes will have nothing even approaching DRM functionality,
because nobody wants to be sued by M$.
That's good, but OTOH other OSes will not build anything approaching
secure computing either, for the same reason.
I expect M$ OSes to provide both secure computing as well as the DRM
nightmare outlined in Stallman's story. I also expect all other OSes to
provide neither secure computing nor DRM.
Software patents. Gotta love em!
M.
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