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Posted by Unruh on December 30, 2006, 12:53 am
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>> nemo_outis wrote:
>>> Read and weep:
>>>
>>> A Cost Analysis of Windows Vista Content Protection
>>> Peter Gutmann
>>> http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_cost.txt
>>>
>>
>> "The Vista Content Protection specification could very well constitute
>> the longest suicide note in history."
>> - http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_cost.txt
>>
>> Others have pointed out that Vista will be the LAST Windows OS ever!!!
>> The future is net-based! How about that.
>>
>> - Rick
>>
>There are several problems with that view:
>1. Despite Vista being bloatware there is a high likelihood that it will
>be adopted by a significant percentage of businesses who will be
>delighted by DRM, expiring email, documents that cannot be read offsite,
>etc. To the extent that business adopts Vista (and Office 2007) the MS
>cycle still has the better part of a decade to go, at least. There will
>be significant pressure on smaller businesses and comsumers to follow
>suit, however grudgingly, for compatibility reasons.
That is until they suddenly discover that a program that they rely on stops
working for a few weeks, or hardware containing critical material becomes
unaccessible.
>2. I believe that open-source (the BDSs, linux, etc.) has more of a
>future than net-based computing. I suspect I'm not alone in wanting the
>locus of control confined to a machine under my complete and direct
>control.
>3. I sincerely hope that the DRM future (Vista, etc.) which makes PC
>owners serfs on their own machines will be massively rejected. That is
>my hope but, sadly, not my expectation.
I think that businesses will rapidly come to be converted to your
viewpoint.
>Regards,
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