Mike wrote:
Hey guys I'm seriously considering moving from Windows to OpenSolaris. With all
the DRM problems including the software lockouts if it's determined your
softare isn't legit including software that isn't related to Microsoft like
Photoshop I've been hearing and how Microsoft is forcing this on everyone I'd
like to know if Solaris intends to implement anything like this in the future?
Solaris or OpenSolaris ?
What if we did ?
What if Linux did ?
Is a fully open source and openly developed DRM system bad? [DReaM]
Not all DRM is "bad" or "evil". In some contexts what is often going
under the banner of "DRM" is really just access control. Are file
permissions bad ? Are forms of mandatory access control (which is
really what DRM is) such as implemented by Trusted Extensions[TX] or
SELinux bad ? It depends on who you are and how you use the technology.
Would it be a good thing to have the DReaM stuff available as a core
part of OpenSolaris ? Maybe, depends what we use it for, if we use it
as a security feature it could be good but even that depends on who you are.
Now personally I think that OpenSolaris really needs an implementation
of the Trusted Computing group TPM and the upper layer stack. Not so we
can restrict what software gets run or dictate to people but so that we
users of OpenSolaris distributions don't get locked out of being able to
view certain types of content. There is already work underway to get
some basic support for the TPM hardware so we can use it as a hardware
crypto key store [osol-tpm], a project for this in OpenSolaris is just
starting up now.
Oh and how does KDE run with OS?
Apparently very well (I'm a GNOME person myself) but it isn't included
in Sun's OpenSolaris distribution. For KDE Belenix is probably the
OpenSolaris distro I'd recommend you start with.
[TX] http://opensolaris.org/os/community/security/projects/tx/
[DReaM] http://www.openmediacommons.org/
[osol-tpm] http://opensolaris.org/os/project/tpm/
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Darren J Moffat
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