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List:       mandrake-expert
Subject:    Re: [expert] Here they come again...and again
From:       daRcmaTTeR <mdw1982 () mdw1982 ! dyndns ! org>
Date:       2002-06-30 18:04:15
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Carroll Grigsby wrote:
> On Friday 28 June 2002 03:26 pm, Todd Lyons wrote:
> 
>>Hoping to spark some interesting commentary.
>>
>>Richie de Almeida wrote on Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 11:05:44PM -0400 :
>>
>>>>pass the k-y folks, bills done it again.  This is what became of
>>>>Hailstorm.  But this time it's aimed squarely at Open Source and
>>>>freedom of choice.>
>>>
>>>You know, this whole Palladium thing depresses me to no end-- does
>>>anybody else feel that Palladium is going to turn what we think of as
>>>PC's into something like a glorified VCR?
>>
>>Read Linus' book?  In it he predicts that in 10 years, nobody will care
>>about operating systems, instead they'll all be using appliances.  You
>>think Bill read that book?
>>
>>Blue skies...		Todd
> 
> 
> Here's another swifty by your friends at Microsoft:
> http://bsdvault.net/article.php?sid=527&mode=&order=0
> This guy downloaded the latest security patch for Windows Media Player. 
> Unlike most of us, he read the EULA, and found this passage:
> 
>  " * Digital Rights Management (Security). 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. " 
> 
> Make that a double helping of KY, please.
> -- cmg

cmg,

all the KY in the universe isn't going to help that one in. I'm sorry to 
be so colorfully, blunt, but there just isn't any other way to put. 
They're doing something I didn't think they could do and that is get 
worse then they were. There doesn't seem to be any such thing as "fair 
use" any longer.

-- 
daRcmaTTeR
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