On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 22:13:31 -0500 Greg Rundlett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I just noticed that Microsoft has used the acronym 'RMS' to stand for > 'Rights Management Services'[1]. That has got to drive the real RMS > nuts. Well, actually, I can't speak for him, but it kinda drives me > nuts because it seems like they are using their marketing dollars in a > thinly veiled personal affront to their nemesis. Hm. RMS himself does this with "DRM"(*): Of course, Hollywood and the record companies plan to use treacherous computing for "DRM" (Digital Restrictions Management), so that downloaded videos and music can be played only on one specified computer. -Bill (*) http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/can-you-trust.html P.S. The same paper has in one of its own postscripts the following. One rule of propaganda is to first take over control of the language: When Microsoft speaks of "security" in connection with palladium, they do not mean what we normally mean by that word: protecting your machine from things you do not want. They mean protecting your copies of data on your machine from access by you in ways others do not want. A slide in the presentation listed several types of secrets palladium could be used to keep, including "third party secrets" and "user secrets"--but it put "user secrets" in quotation marks, recognizing that this somewhat of an absurdity in the context of palladium. The presentation made frequent use of other terms that we frequently associate with the context of security, such as "attack", "malicious code", "spoofing", as well as "trusted". None of them means what it normally means. "Attack" doesn't mean someone trying to hurt you, it means you trying to copy music. "Malicious code" means code installed by you to do what someone else doesn't want your machine to do. "Spoofing" doesn't mean someone fooling you, it means you fooling palladium. And so on. _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss