At 09:42 AM 7/3/2002 Wednesday, Marc Branchaud wrote:
>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 n
Marc:
There is no reason IMO to talk about economics when basic
properties are being ignored.
DRMOS will fail for pretty much the same basic reason that PKI
is failing. We are still trying to create an absolute reference
to measure "distance" in dataspace, when such reference
cannot exist by def
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 nobod
- Forwarded message -
Reviewing the Microsoft DRM OS (Palladium Patent) it became
apparent Richard Stallman's short story, The Right to Read
is indeed visionary. Stallman wrote the story back in 1997,
about a dystopian society which borders on Orwell's 1984.
The "Right to Read" can be fo
