Jon Drews wrote: > After work one day, I followed a link from news article to this > website concerning Microsoft's new Vista. > http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_cost.txt > > I perused the link and found this snippet: > ____________________________________________ > However, one important point that must be kept in mind when reading > this document is that in order to work, Vista's content protection > must be able to violate the laws of physics, something that's unlikely > to happen no matter how much the content industry > wishes it were possible [Note C]. This conundrum is displayed over > and over again in the Windows content-protection requirements, with > manufacturers being given no hard-and-fast guidelines but instead > being instructed that they need to display as much dedication as > possible to the party line. The documentation is peppered with > sentences like: > > "It is recommended that a graphics manufacturer go beyond the strict letter > of the specification and provide additional content-protection features, > because this demonstrates their strong intent to protect premium content". > > This is an exceedingly strange way to write technical specifications, > but is dictated by the fact that what the spec is trying to achieve is > fundamentally impossible. > ____________________________________________ > > What I would like to know: > > A) Will Vista really cripple certain applications as Mr. Gutman > claims? Does anyone have experience with beta releases of Vista? Mr > Gutman goes on to say that that certain nVidai HD video cards failed > to work as promised, with Vista and it's DRM enforcement.
gutman is a respected researcher, & his claims pass the smell test, so i'm inclined to believe him. > B) If Mr. Gutman's claims are for the most part correct, can we > expect a boost in migration to BSD/Linux/FOSS ? most people will have absolutely no idea how much crap they're stepping in to when they use vista until it's up to their necks. a few informed people will know, & will switch. maybe once enough people get really angry, they'll be interested in switching. however, many - most? - will switch to mac, since that's what they know. scott -- R. Scott Granneman [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ www.granneman.com Full list of publications @ http://www.granneman.com/publications My new book: Linux Phrasebook @ http://www.granneman.com/books Read the Download Squad Blog @ http://www.downloadsquad.com "Punctuality is the virtue of the bored." ---Evelyn Waugh _______________________________________________ CWE-LUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.cwelug.org/ http://www.cwelug.org/archives/ http://www.cwelug.org/mailinglist/
