[ale] your new administrator, bill gates

[Josh Freeman]

Every time I am convinced that something has come along to really hurt
the Linux crowd (Palladium), M$ does something so mind-bogglingly stupid
as this to make it that much easier for me to make a case from taking my
office from a Windows shop to a Mac shop or, preferrably, an all-Unix
shop.

While Palladium is still could be a Bad Thing(tm) for the Open Source
Community, this sort of silliness hurts Microsoft. A lot.

Josh


On Tue, 2002-07-02 at 12:30, Keith Hopkins wrote:
> Geoffrey wrote:
> > http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/25956.html
> [snip]
> > 
> > "You agree that in order to protect the integrity of content and 
> > software protected by digital rights management ('Secure Content'), 
> > Microsoft may provide security related updates to the OS Components that 
> > will be automatically downloaded onto your computer. These security 
> > related updates may disable your ability to copy and/or play Secure 
> > Content and use other software on your computer. If we provide such a 
> > security update, we will use reasonable efforts to post notices on a web 
> > site explaining the update."
> > 
> 
> Where is Nancy R. when you need her... "JUST SAY NO!"
> 
> -- 
> Lost in Tokyo,
>    Keith
> 
> 
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