Korean government warns against Vista upgrade
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| The Ministry of Information and Communication said that it wished it
| could tell a private company like Microsoft to postpone the release
| of Vista, but it can't. The best thing, an official said, was not to
| install Vista before you know what you're getting into.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=37159
Related:
Becta report slams Microsoft academic licensing, dismisses Vista
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| Even ignoring the open source-related controversy surrounding these
| reports (see here, here , here, and here) the statistics are jaw-dropping.
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http://www.businessreviewonline.com/os/archives/2007/01/becta_report_sl.html
http://tinyurl.com/y6exp6
Peter Gutmann on Vista DRM
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| Leo: So the insane paranoia really comes from Hollywood, not from
| Microsoft.
|
| PETER: It's hard to tell what goes on inside Microsoft. But if you
| read the technical specs, I think any technical person that reads
| those specs would say this is never going to work, and half of the
| stuff is nuts. On the other hand, it could well be high-level managers
| inside Microsoft who don't understand the technology and who
| completely agree with Hollywood and who think we should do this
| even though other people have told me it's impossible, we're
| going to do it anyway.
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http://www.grc.com/sn/SN-074.htm
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
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
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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