Hi FreeDOS guys :) As well as making OpenGEM for FreeDOS, I spend time helping the Free Software Foundation Europe. One of our big topics of late has been DRM and 'Trusted Computing', and I have just written a little article about it: https://www.fsfe.org/en/fellows/shane/communicating_freely/drm_trusted_computing_and_the_future_of_our_children
I'd really value any comments you may have. I think these issues are really important to all Free Software development. FreeDOS (for instance) does not really help spread multimedia and therefore is largely excluded from the DRM conversation. But what about in the future when only trusted software runs on trusted hardware? Suddenly this wonderful system (FreeDOS) might not be usable by people, even if they want to try it. We could be a victim of circumstances. Just a though...it's something that has been concerning me lately. Shane -- Shane Martin Coughlan e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] m: +447773180107 w: www.shaneland.co.uk --- Projects: http://mobility.opendawn.com http://gem.opendawn.com http://enigmail.mozdev.org http://www.winpt.org --- Organisations: http://www.fsfeurope.org http://www.fsf.org http://www.labour.org.uk http://www.opensourceacademy.gov.uk --- OpenPGP: http://www.shaneland.co.uk/personalpages/shane/files/publickey.asc ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
