On 22/12/06, john lewis <johnlewis@???> wrote:
> On Fri, 22 Dec 2006 21:07:33 +0000 (UTC)
> Nick Chalk <nick@???> wrote:
>
> > An interesting article by Peter Gutmann on Vista's
> > specification for "content protection"...
> >
> > http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_cost.txt
> >
> > It's no wonder MS took five years to write it,
> > with all that unnecessary complexity added.
>
> If what he writes is only half true then I am glad my PCs are never
> used for playing music, watching TV or playing DVDs. And I'll never
> buy a motherboard with integrated graphics or sound - which
> probably means I'll have to stay with my current one :-(
>
> --
> John Lewis
> Debian Linux with Geneweb genealogy application
>
Don't worry. I don't think open source will get round to implementing
all these content protection features. open source developers only
implement what users want, and users don't want any of this content
protection. Just take DVD playing as an example. How many Linux media
players support region protection?...none.
