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[News] Gutmann: Microsoft Could Be Held to Ransom by Hollywood; Sun Microsystems Backs Off

The Longest Suicide Note in History

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| On the same podcast Gutmann scotched suggestions Microsoft were held
| to ransom by Hollywood;
| 
| [...]
| 
| The genie's out of the bottle before the operating system has even
| been released! But that doesn't mean Vista users in particular - and
| the computer community at large - won't end up paying for Microsoft's
| DRM folly. At the risk of repeating myself repeating myself, yet
| another reason to move to Linux.
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http://blogs.pcworld.co.nz/pcworld/tux-love/2007/01/the_longest_suicide_note_in_hi.html

Hollywood, NSA, Abramoff lobbying. The whole Mafia seems to lend a hand.

Sun Blogs: Comments on Peter Gutmann's Vista paper 

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| Overall, I agree with Gutmann that what is being attempted is
| fundamentally impossible - although I don't agree with all the
| consequences he draws. Further, I believe that software vendors
| have no right to dictate what hardware vendors produce. I also
| must say that Note C made me grin, being Gutmann's view on DRM.
| 
| Finally, I can't see any Sun hardware ever being certified to
| run Vista, since the apparent need (as described in the article)
| to keep hardware details secret goes against our philosophy
| (even SPARC is famously open-source, see VHDL for a SPARC v8
| implementation and our own Verilog of the T1 SPARC v9).
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http://blogs.sun.com/davew/entry/comments_on_peter_gutmann_s

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