At 12:38 AM 12/19/01 +0000, Graham Lally wrote: >Ralph Wallis wrote: > >> On Monday, 17 Dec 2001 at 07:58, Michael Motyka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>>Could someone who knows more than I do explain to me why this MS "IP" is >>>anything other than making the owner of a PC unable to have root access >>>to their own hardware/OS? If so it seems to be an idea unworthy of >>>protection from lawyers and men with guns. >>> >> >> A more correct analogy is with speed limiters on cars. > > >On your own roads. And the car maker tells you where you can go to. And >which route you have to take. And where you can end up. And then forces >you to pay for a map. >
And tells you which brand of gasoline you can burn under penalty of law for using others. And treats go-carts as circumvention devices.
