"This will not only coerce those running older versions of Office to upgrade, which has been a problem for MS in the last few years, but it will also shut out competing software, such as OpenOffice. Now think about this for a second. Even if the developers of a competing office suite could figure out how to get their software to open an Office 2003 document, doing so would be a DMCA violation, since they'd be bypassing an anti-circumvention device."
Read on.
http://slashdot.org/articles/03/09/02/1659244.shtml?tid=109&tid=185&tid=187
- Re: lug_: M$ plans DRM in next office suite Paul Bagyenda
- Re: lug_: M$ plans DRM in next office suite Lule George William
