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"Expect Microsoft to ally even more closely with the RIAA and MPAA in making
yet another try at hardware-based DRM restrictions — and legislation making
them mandatory. The rationale will be to stop piracy and spam, but the real
goal will be customer control and a lockout of all unauthorized software. Two
previous attempts at this have failed, but the logic of Microsoft's situation
is such that they must keep trying.
"I also expect a serious effort, backed by several billion dollars in bribe
money (oops, excuse me, campaign contributions), to get open-source software
outlawed on some kind of theory that it aids terrorists. We can only defeat
that by making sure that national governments become so attached to
open-source code that their military men and bureaucrats will short-stop the
bribed legislators, rather than let their vital infrastructure be outlawed."
http://www.catb.org/~esr/halloween/halloween11.html
Lots more there. It's prophetic
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