looks too me like they are building the Berlin wall again, the arguments are the same: protection against some outside evil, while actually just locking their own people in.
The scary part is, that they are on 90% of the computers so it may very well work. So instead of free linux users looking at locked-in windows users it may end up the other way round. If the cage they are living in is 90% of the world then suddenly we are the ones living in a cage. It kinda worked on DVD, didn't it? I mean my mother could't copy a DVD nor can 90% of the DVD wachers. Language settings and complete control over customers.... - this is a scary plan. (Is Bill Gates somehow related to Saddam Hussein or Stalin? They must share some genes....) Patrik You wrote on Tuesday 25 June 2002 15:43: > Franki wrote: > >Don't laugh.. it might be a good thing if they bring this in.. > > > >Then you'll have Palladium users, and the rest of the world.. > > > >Sorta like the "microsoft network" when it first started.. > >they wanted their own internet, unfortunatly noone else did. > > > >besides.. they'd end up in court again so quickly... > > True - it's tempting to be overawed by the MS Empire, but we should > remember their "revolutionary" projects which went belly-up almost > immediately: MSN, active desktops, Windows ME .... MS relies on its > being a de facto standard (as opposed to a real standard): people want > to exchange Word documents, share data with Access, share viruses with > Outlook and so on. Splitting that "community" by creating a new > "standard" would remove Microsoft's only advantage. > > Sir Robin
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