Daniel Carrera wrote: > My take is that we should provide security-related features like digital > signatures and encryption. But I have problems with features that, for > example, give control of your computer to another party, or eliminate > whistle-blowing.
IMHO DRM does not necessarily give anyone control of your computer. At first DRM gives *you* control over your content and how it is used by others. For non-private use this can be a useful and important feature even for office programs. The problem with DRM is that following the common understanding it needs hardware support to make it safe. This of course is currently very often seen as something that might cause problems in the area you mentioned. But OTOH it is also not clear that DRM will really take over the computer just because there is no implementation where that could be verified or disproved. > The problem with "DRM" is that it could encompass any and all of the > above, as well as a dozen things I haven't thought of. This in turn has > another problem, related to what you just said. Suppose we take DRM to > mean "digital signatures" only. So under product description we put a > check mark next to DRM. Then someone comes in, sees DRM, and takes it to > be a synonym for "Treacherous Computing" and tells everyone OOo has sold > out to the devil. I wouldn't care for people that tell such nonsense. Obviously they don't understand the matter and are just parroting something they have read somewhere else. DRM is very often misunderstood. IMHO it's neither good nor bad, in the same way as encryption or signing isn't. It's just a feature one can use (or not), and there is nothing bad in restricting the access to content you have produced by yourself. Best regards, Mathias -- Mathias Bauer - OpenOffice.org Application Framework Project Lead Please reply to the list only, [EMAIL PROTECTED] is a spam sink. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
