A dystopian future - looking beyond Windows Vista
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| If the thought of Microsoft Vista's DRM restrictions, restrictive
| EULA, version confusion and user lock-in has you scared then you
| definitely do not want to know what the lads from Redmond have in
| store for the next version. If Microsoft's latest patent
| application is anything to go by then the next version of
| Windows, Vista+1 is really going to give you nightmares.
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| The message is clear. Get out while you can. Microsoft's only interest is
| to empty your pockets and keep your computer hostage. It wants to turn
| computing into a monopoly content distribution channel and sell you to the
| highest bidder. Choose freedom and switch to Free/Open-source software.
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http://lxer.com/module/newswire/view/79728/index.html
Related:
Cost analysis of Vista DRM: Part II
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| Microsoft doesn't merely use DRM. To all intents and purposes it
| is DRM, better known as Digital Rights Management, Digital
| Restrictions Management or or just plain CRAP for Content
| Restriction, Annulment, and Protection, as ZDNet's David
| Berlind called it, eventually deferring to Richard Stallman's
| Cancellation, Restriction, and Punishment. We call it, simply,
| CCG, short for Consumer Control Gear.
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http://p2pnet.net/story/10827
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