Jeroen C. van Gelderen schrieb am Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 12:38:14AM -0500: [...] > > Obviously a vendor can restrict what kind of software runs on the > hardware he sells, either by contract or trough technical means. In the > latter case the consumer is of course free to circumvent the barriers, > provided that he lives in a free country. If he doesn't like the > vendor's policy, he is of course free to vote with his wallet.
If all vendors have agreed to the same policy [TCPA] you may experiece problems when trying to manufacture your own MB/cpu at home. Voting does not make sense without alternatives. So DRM with collusion of too many vendors will be a problem that even market forces cannot solve easily if it is hard for newcomers to enter the market segment (who has the money to set up a chip plant?). Birger --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]