See Vista's "suicide note" (DRM) -- PCTECH

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Subject: See Vista's "suicide note" (DRM)
From: Alan <cfuture@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2007 20:15:18 -0500
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Now there's an animal you can abort before it's born, Vista.

Gates owns a sizeable chunk of the company where I work, dunno maybe 10percent, and it's still a Sotweenie desktop for all users, but Linux issneaking in via the network guys. Here's the obscure post that took fire:


http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_cost.html

"The Vista Content Protection specification could very well constitutethe longest suicide note in history".....


Alan

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