Microsoft already proposed the plan with Palladium years ago. palladium 2002 EPIC article on Palladium
I ran into thousands of people who knew about the "Palladium Scare" - Microsoft being able to control what you had on your computer. Microsoft finally had to stop active work on Palladium because too many people were scared of it.
Now that is the exact same technique that should be used here. Its interesting in my American Heritage and Economics class in college, my teacher is using this episode with the backlash at the recording industries as proof that we don't listen to history.
He points out that the in general the reasons people pirate music and copy programs is the same reasons in general that led to the American Revolution, also that if someone doesn't wake up the recording and film companies they are going to find that no one will listen to them.
Everyone pretty much will ignore them and download as much as they like, just like the early americans did to england. Now there are a few hardcore "pirates" but in general when the teenager logs onto napster or morpheus and downloads a mp3 its not cause they are a pirate, but its cause they dont' like being manhandled by huge prices etc.
The point is that its "free." If the only choice were to buy Red Hat 8.0 then RedHat would be in the same problems that Microsoft is having by forcing people to use their product. I run RedHat 7.3 and its great, though its usually either I have to download sometime, and it'll either run for KDE *or* Gnome, this new advantage is great for common users. For us techies, we should know how to not install the kds - gnome intregration and use like Kds 3 or Gnome or Ice or something else. Its stupid to change something that works though, but we'll see what happens. Redhat is just trying to make money thats what we all want. and if it blows up on them oh well...use mandrake then. thanks drclaw22
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Microsoft already proposed the plan with Palladium years ago. palladium 2002
EPIC article on Palladium
I ran into thousands of people who knew about the "Palladium Scare" - Microsoft being able to control what you had on your computer. Microsoft finally had to stop active work on Palladium because too many people were scared of it.
Now that is the exact same technique that should be used here. Its interesting in my American Heritage and Economics class in college, my teacher is using this episode with the backlash at the recording industries as proof that we don't listen to history.
He points out that the in general the reasons people pirate music and copy programs is the same reasons in general that led to the American Revolution, also that if someone doesn't wake up the recording and film companies they are going to find that no one will listen to them.
Everyone pretty much will ignore them and download as much as they like, just like the early americans did to england. Now there are a few hardcore "pirates" but in general when the teenager logs onto napster or morpheus and downloads a mp3 its not cause they are a pirate, but its cause they dont' like being manhandled by huge prices etc.
then theres the remote deletion of files with paladium...although everyone denys it. I've read that it won't even let you play them
The point is that its "free." If the only choice were to buy Red Hat 8.0 then RedHat would be in the same problems that Microsoft is having by forcing people to use their product. I run RedHat 7.3 and its great, though its usually either I have to download sometime, and it'll either run for KDE *or* Gnome, this new advantage is great for common users. For us techies, we should know how to not install the kds - gnome intregration and use like Kds 3 or Gnome or Ice or something else. Its stupid to change something that works though, but we'll see what happens. Redhat is just trying to make money thats what we all want. and if it blows up on them oh well...use mandrake then. thanks
drclaw22