I do not completely understand the last paragraph - however as a mathematican I am familiar with graph coloring and relative primes. Could someone point me to some literature which explains what kind of algorithms cannot be used, and why?
As I understand only the conduct of hardware manufacturers can be questioned in the particular case, because MS provides a way not to use their software (according to their License agreement). It is the manufacturer who tried not to follow suit because they would see no money from MS, according to their agreement. So IMO MS can be condemned because of the agreements like that but even that would not mean that the end user could see money from it.:( I even can see MS using this story as sg supporting them: they give the opportunity for everyone to return the software, and how many of us did it???
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I do not completely understand the last paragraph - however as a mathematican I am familiar with graph coloring and relative primes. Could someone point me to some literature which explains what kind of algorithms cannot be used, and why?
As I understand only the conduct of hardware manufacturers can be questioned in the particular case, because MS provides a way not to use their software (according to their License agreement). It is the manufacturer who tried not to follow suit because they would see no money from MS, according to their agreement. So IMO MS can be condemned because of the agreements like that but even that would not mean that the end user could see money from it. :( I even can see MS using this story as sg supporting them: they give the opportunity for everyone to return the software, and how many of us did it???