Do some good for the world; make M$ irrelevant

Tim Rowledge tim at sumeru.stanford.edu
Fri Jul 5 16:49:30 UTC 2002


"Stéphane Rollandin" <hepta at zogotounga.net> is claimed by the authorities to have written:

> I don't get it. Do you mean that you could simply not program your own computer ? What's the
> difference between an external non-certified application and your own non-certified stuff ?
> Is Emacs going to be illegal because you can use it to program in Lisp ? 
> This does not make any sense.
The way the Black Hats (and really, truly, they are out there, though
fotunately not completely in control yet) will try to have this work
is:-
hardware _must_ be compliant with DRM stuff.
somebody gets to 'certify' software as 'trusted'.
nobody is allowed a certificate for a compiler except 'authorised'
software houses.

End result - you won't be able to make your own software. And it's all
for your own protection. Just like '1984'. Or the soviet union in it's
wettest dreams.

tim
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