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[CLONE] Gutmann's DRM Argument Spun Without Success

  • Subject: [CLONE] Gutmann's DRM Argument Spun Without Success
  • From: The Ghost In The Machine <ewill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 16:20:50 -0800
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • References: <1169593990.910712.119870@v45g2000cwv.googlegroups.com>
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  • Xref: ellandroad.demon.co.uk comp.os.linux.advocacy:484336
What is this, Clone The Roy Week?

In comp.os.linux.advocacy, schavemetitz@xxxxxxxxx
<schavemetitz@xxxxxxxxx>
 wrote
on 23 Jan 2007 15:13:10 -0800
<1169593990.910712.119870@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> Microsoft spins DRM tale in 'blog'
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
> | Microsoft can't come clean, can't talk honestly, and won't do
> | anything to protect its customers. Keep that in mind when you
> | are buying your next PC, if you buy one with Vista pre-installed,
> | you are funding the very people who are actively hurting you.
> `----
>
> http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=37091
>

"DRM infection".  Heh.  Did they enter into an agreement
with Sony when I wasn't looking?

>
> Related:
>
> The Longest Suicide Note in History
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
> | Gutmann: 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.
> `----     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> http://blogs.pcworld.co.nz/pcworld/tux-love/2007/01/the_longest_suicide_note_in_hi.html
>

Did they have help from
http://www.vaxer.net/~jeeves/AssistedSuicide.html ? :-)

Not to be outdone, Linux has an offering of its own:

http://vigor.sourceforge.net/

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