Hi L!
13 Dec 2002, "L.D. Best" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
LB> I know why M$ came out of the monopoly court cases smelling like a
LB> rose.
LB> They sold us out to the Feds.
Sure ... you only now realized ?
Windows 2000 already contains a "NSA Key" ...
Palladium and "trustworthy computing" aim at overimplementing the DMCA, and
ignoring any other rights users have.
Who wins:
*) RIAA (music/film lobby)
*) microsoft (can control your computer, and there will be parts of your
computer that ONLY M$ can control, not even you as the OWNER of the computer)
Who looses:
*) you (computer owner)
*) open source initiative (linux, bsd, gnu ...)
The problem ... M$ has at the beginning really good arguments for selling it.
M$ says that it will help the user against evil hackers and virii.
(who programmed that sh*t which is soooo vulnerable against virii hmmm ...)
And after the user notices that he can't play his&her MP3s for example it will
be too late.
Until than the wonderful and highly intelligent, but not at all lobby
controlled (hahahahaha) US government, will make a lobby protection home act,
which forbades selling normal computers, which lack "trustworthy features", and
George W will sign the death sentences for people "dealing" with normal
computers himself.
Afterwards the import of open source will be forbidden, because it is a copy
protection circumvention device (I LOVE DMCA terminology)
LB> Allow us to keep our tight monopoly and closed source, and we'll
LB> provide the Federal Government with the software tools to spy on
LB> everyone using Microsoft Windows.
exactly this :(
LB> l.d.
CU, Ricsi
PS: Another question, my beloved Walker says that he has the ultimate proof
that iraq has mass destruction weapons. He could tremendously help the UN by
providing this information, so the inspectors would know where exactly to
search for them.
But naturally the US doesn't do it, because this would lead away from war, and
than the weapon lobby would cry, because they couldn't sell their wonderful
weapons ...
what a twisted world we live in.
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