[ale] OT: The wake-up call on Vista gets a little louder

[Bob Toxen]

That's VERY scary.  It appears to have the likely effect of either
  1. Eliminating hardware that can be used for Open Source

or

  2. M$ gets broken up as a Monopoly.  Note that while the U.S. and
     EU don't seem to care about OS monopolies, they are very sensitive
     about protecting Hollywood.  No doubt Hollywood (for whom we can
     thank for the DMCA) does not want M$ to do to them what WallyWorld
     did to retailing -- dictating pricing to vendors.

Buy up your new hardware now and write it off a year earlier too!

Bob Toxen
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On Mon, Dec 25, 2006 at 08:25:16AM -0500, Jim Philips wrote:
> I know this has already been on Digg and The Inquirer, but it's one of those 
> things you can't stress enough. The paper linked below describes many of the 
> changes brought about in Vista by Microsoft's DRM agreements with with 
> content providers and hardware manufacturers. If it's as awful as it sounds, 
> it means there will be no open source drivers from hardware manufacturers who 
> buy into Microsoft's plan. Hopefully, members of the list will read it and 
> comment. In my opinion, it makes open source hardware seem like a necessity.
> 
> http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_cost.txt
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