Do some good for the world; make M$ irrelevant

Ragnar Hojland Espinosa ragnar at linalco.com
Sat Jul 6 08:39:32 UTC 2002


On Fri, Jul 05, 2002 at 10:05:31PM +0300, St?phane Rollandin wrote:
> 
> >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.
> 
> 
> yes, this is dwelling in the realm of dreams and nightmares... I don't see 
> how possibly such a control may come to exist. seems to me like a new "war 
> against ...", and all those wars failed.

It doesnt have to be effective, it just has to be legal (or illegal) in
order to be enforced against whoever they choose to.  Thats when you hear
comments in the line of "thats undoable" or "but theres this hole.." you get
a bad feeling.

> do you play go ? it's a deep and profound stategic game, and there's a very 
> basic principle that a new player learn quickly: if you want all the 
> territory, you will loose. I think this is pretty general.

Good game, indeed.

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Linalco "Especialistas Linux y en Software Libre"
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