Gates and Lasser on Palladium

A rather funny juxtaposition this morning - Bill Gates or someone with his signature stamp sent a spam-gram to pretty much everyone who receives any sort of Microsoft email: Bill only mentions Digital Rights Management in one throw-away sentence. And like most other spam, he promises it's a one-time mailing. On the other hand, Jon Lasser of Think Unix fame takes a harsher look at Microsoft's vision of a world where your computer is trusted against you.

Comments

Re:Ahhh

[bpfinn]

I thought Bill was going to instruct me to send the email to my friends, and he would pay me a dollar for each one who received it. No such luck though.

Re:The Hipocracy!

[matt4077]

How come every comment that contains "I'm expecting to be modded down" ends up at +5, insightful?

Blame

[pjrc]

According to Gates:

it is the growth of the Internet and the advent of massive computing systems built from loose affiliations of services, machines, communications networks and application software that have helped create the potential for increased vulnerabilities.

Shoddy code running unnecessarily with full admin privs probably had nothing to do with it!

Microsoft is clearly untrustworthy.

[func]

What's the point? MS is talking about how they're doing all this stuff to guarantee your privacy, but in the same breath they've just violated your privacy by sending you spam.

Of what value is a trustworthy system controlled by a company who is clearly untrustworthy? Not much.

Of course

[The_Shadows]

The way MS acts, I have to think that they're more like Lawful Evil than Lawful Good. That means they can't make a Paladin. Or a Ranger, for that matter.

Re:Palladium is E-V-I-L

[FroMan]

"trolls" = reverse ("sllort")

Congrats people... You've been trolled.

Re:The Right to Read

[dafozzee]

But what if they revoke my licence to read it?