Andy wrote:
Has anyone here heard of something called email? Oh you have have you? Well that works cross platform, guess how that was made cross platform? well the IETF did something exceptionally simple they posted the spec on a web site.
That's rather odd, given that the specs. for email of one sort or another date back to 1969 (the first network email was on ARPANET in 1971 [1]), and the first web site wasn't until 1989. In fact, email started off being single computer, then special protocol, and it only became cross platform later on. So perhaps not the best example for you to use... ;-)
[1] http://openmap.bbn.com/~tomlinso/ray/firstemailframe.html
Further dishonesty about DRM not possibly being open source. Go ask a security expert, how about Bruce Schneier, whether proprietary algorithms are more secure. They are not. In fact opinion from most security researchers indicate the opposite is true.
Well, you'll be glad to hear that Windows DRM uses the non-proprietary elliptic curve, DES, RC4 and SHA1, then?
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