economics of DRM, was Re: Ross's TCPA paper

2002-07-13 Thread Eric Murray
On Sat, Jul 13, 2002 at 06:34:36PM +1200, Peter Gutmann wrote: > Eric Murray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >On Fri, Jul 12, 2002 at 07:14:55PM +1200, Peter Gutmann wrote: > >>From a purely economic perspectice, I can't see how this will fly. I'll pull a > >>random figure of $5 out of thin air (we

Re: economics of DRM, was Re: Ross's TCPA paper

2002-07-13 Thread Harmon Seaver
On Sat, Jul 13, 2002 at 10:59:23AM -0700, Eric Murray wrote: > Microsoft does not do things simply because they enjoy being evil. > They are not so worried about Linux (with its small share of the market) > that they will spend mega-bucks now on a very long term project that might > possibly let t

Re: economics of DRM, was Re: Ross's TCPA paper

2002-07-15 Thread Eric Murray
On Sat, Jul 13, 2002 at 07:10:07PM -0500, Harmon Seaver wrote: > On Sat, Jul 13, 2002 at 10:59:23AM -0700, Eric Murray wrote: > > Microsoft does not do things simply because they enjoy being evil. > > They are not so worried about Linux (with its small share of the market) > > that they will spend