In other news:
Leading free software developers urged Congress and the Bush administration Wednesday not to impose new trade restrictions aimed at keeping CEO, CIO, CFO, COO, CTO, CSO and other director and executive jobs from moving overseas, where executive labor costs are lower.
'There is no job that is Free America's God-given right anymore,' a leading free software developer said Wednesday.
'The problem is not a lack of highly educated CEOs, CIOs, CFOs, COOs, CTOs, CSOs, directors and other executives' said Gnu Hacker founder of the Free Software Association of America. 'The problem is a lack of highly educated CEOs, CIOs, CFOs, COOs, CTOs, CSOs and directors willing to work for the minimum wage or lower in the U.S. Costs are driving outsourcing, not the quality of the American executive business schools.'"
Your statements are false. von Neumann was a Jew and his name reflects this (yiddish). Hungarians did not change their names because Hungary was part of the Austrian empire.
Moreover Hungary is notorious for heavily persecuting Jews during the Holocaust. On March 24, 1944 President Roosevelt had to officially warn Hungary to refrain from anti-Jewish measures.
Microsoft to Consumers: It is impossible to force restrictions on consumers! And we will provide the ability to break Palladium/TCPA! Forget that we have just invested trillions of dollars in developing Palladium/TCPA that will force new high restrictions on consumers in order to "protect" our incresing big profits from these consumers. Anyway we want you to believe that the system can be easily broken and that it is impossible to force restrictions. Now shut up, buy Palladium/TCPA & go to sleep. Palladium/TCPA is not about restrictions, it is not about DRM. Sweet dreams!
Big corporations have invested massively in developing technologies like Palladium & TCPA. They plan to sell huge quantities of the new restrictive hardware and software to idiot consumers during the next years, that will keep their big profits increasing. Consumers' refusal to buy the new restrictive hardware and software is the worst that can happen to their business plans.
Unfortunately many people are naive, credulous and easily fooled and it is likely that they will not resist a massive PR/disinformation/advertising/marketing campaign. Many of these fooled consumers will not even realize that they will not actually *buy* the hardware and software, but they will in fact *rent* them since they will lose full control over their software and hardware, handing over their control to Palladium/TCPA software and hardware providers.
Considering that DRM will not work just because Microsoft wants us to believe that Palladium & TCPA is not about DRM, is just wishful thinking and another PR move.
The question is: security for whom? You might prefer not to have to
worry about viruses, but neither TCPA nor Palladium will fix that:
viruses exploit the way software applications (such as Microsoft
Office and Outlook) use scripting. You might get annoyed by spam, but
that won't get fixed either. (Microsoft implies that it will be fixed,
by filtering out all unsigned messages - but the spammers will just
buy TCPA PCs. You'd be better off using your existing mail client to
filter out mail from people you don't know and putting it in a folder
you scan briefly once a day.) You might be worried about privacy, but
neither TCPA nor Palladium will fix that; almost all privacy
violations result from the abuse of authorised access, often obtained
by coercing consent. The medical insurance company that requires you
to consent to your data being shared with your employer and with
anyone else they can sell it to, isn't going to stop just because
their PCs are now officially `secure'. On the contrary, they are
likely to sell it even more widely, because computers are now
`trusted'.
Economists have noted that when a manufacturer makes a `green'
product available, it often increases pollution, as people buy green
rather than buying less; we may see a security equivalent of this
`social choice trap', as it's called. In addition, by entrenching and
expanding monopolies, TCPA will increase the incentives to price
discriminate and thus to harvest personal data for profiling.
The most charitable view of TCPA is put forward by a Microsoft
researcher: there are some applications in which you want to constrain
the user's actions. For example, you want to stop people fiddling with
the odometer on a car before they sell it. Similarly, if you want to
do DRM on a PC then you need to treat the user as the enemy.
Seen in these terms, TCPA and Palladium do not so much provide
security for the user as for the PC vendor, the software supplier, and
the content industry. They do not add value for the user, but destroy
it. They constrain what you can do with your PC in order to enable
application and service vendors to extract more money from you. This
is the classic definition of an exploitative cartel - an industry
agreement that changes the terms of trade so as to diminish consumer
surplus.
No doubt Palladium will be bundled with new features so that the
package as a whole appears to add value in the short term, but the
long-term economic, social and legal implications require serious
thought.
24. So why is this called `Trusted Computing'? I don't see
why I should trust it at all!
It's almost an in-joke. In the US Department of Defense, a `trusted
system or component' is defined as `one which can break the security
policy'. This might seem counter-intuitive at first, but just stop to
think about it. The mail guard or firewall that stands between a
Secret and a Top Secret system can - if it fails - break the security
policy that mail should only ever flow from Secret to Top Secret, but
never in the other direction. It is therefore trusted to enforce the
information flow policy.
Or take a civilian example: suppose you trust your doctor to keep
your medical records private. This means that he has access to your
records, so he could leak them to the press if he were careless or
malicious. You don't trust me to keep your medical records, because I
don't have them; regardless of whether I like you or hate you, I can't
do anything to affect your policy that your medical records should be
confidential. Your doctor can, though; and the fact that he is in a
position to harm you is really what is meant (at a system level) when
you say that you trust him. You may have a warm feeling about him, or
you may just have to trust him because he is the only doctor on the
island where you live; no matter, the DoD definition strips away these
fuzzy, emotional aspects of `trust' (that can confuse people).
Remember during the late 1990s, as people debated government
control over cryptography, Al Gore proposed a `Trusted Third Party' -
a service that would keep a copy of your decryption key safe, just in
case you (or the FBI, or the NSA) ever needed it. The name was derided
as the sort of marketing exercise that saw the Russian colony of East
Germany called a `Democratic Republic'. But it really does chime with
DoD thinking. A Trusted Third Party is a third party that can break
your security policy.
25. So a `Trusted Computer' is one that can break my security?
The user still decides what software is trusted or not.
This is completely false. With Palladium/TCPA the corporations that produce restricted hardware, restricted software and restricted media decide what is trusted on consumers' computers and what it is not.
That is what Palladium & TCPA are indented for: To confine the consumers' abilities in respect to their hardware and software, by creating a system of restrictions, which they call it "trust" in order to fool consumers into buying restricted hardware & software.
For a full list of Palladium DRM related patents see: http://cryptome.org/ms-drm-os2.htm
Hardware ID to prevent software piracy
Have you ever heard of monopolies and oligopolies? If you have not, then go study: http://directory.google.com/Top/Society/Is sues/Eco nomic/Monopolies_and_Oligopolies/ http://dmoz.org /Society/Issues/Economic/Monopolies _and_Oligopolies/
"Fighting battles by voting with our wallets" is just wishful thinking.
You lie. And you are making stuff up in order to prop up your weak arguments.
There are people who do not care at all about the "goodies" people like you advertise in your propaganda. But they do care a lot about their freedom. Palladium and TCPA is going to severely restrict people's freedom.
And why you are at it, get a clue. You are just making stuff up trying to sound ominous and foreboding. You are in fact talking DRM: "Pirates and digital copyright infringers..."
Rubbish.
A company that has no real competitors is a monopoly.
A cable company, a DSL provider, a dial-up provider, a satellite provider, and a cellular dial-up provider, they all provide very different services.
It is like saying that even if we have a single bicycle manufacturer and a single car manufacturer, then we will have no monopoly.
It's pretty evident that you don't have the slightest idea what "monopoly" means.
What you see as a "merit" can be very harmful for others who could not care less about the "goodies" people like you advertise in your propaganda.
For more information read: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/rja14/tcpa-fa q.html
Please don't trade our freedom for some rubbish music & movies.
Your views on this issue are very limited and naive and you seem to be very credulous. It is completely false and ridiculous that you can "fight" some sort of "battle by voting with our wallets".
Palladium, TCPA and related technologies are restrictive technologies. They are specifically designed to enforce new high restrictions on consumers and to steel control from these consumers, handing it over to big software, hardware and media corporations. Idiot consumers might be fooled to buy the new restrictive hardware and software or the governments will enforce new laws like CBDTPA and the like that will make the use of these technologies mandatory.
Most free software users could not care less about the "goodies" people like you advertise in your propaganda. They are smart enough not to be fooled into buying restrictive software and hardware. Unfortunately they will be the victims of these technologies.
Sooner or later they will not be able to buy non-restrictive hardware because all the Internet will require to use restrictive hardware and software or because there will be no more non-restrictive hardware available on the market. Eventually they will find out that these new restrictions can no longer be disabled in the new hardware. Ultimately they will run out of alternatives, due to market forces big corporations will exercise or due to government imposed laws. "Fighting battles by voting with our wallets" is just wishful thinking.
Enjoy your new restrictive music mp3s and movies at the cost of our freedom.
Your views on this issue are very limited and naive and you seem to be very credulous. It is completely false and ridiculous that you can "fight" some sort of "battle by voting with our wallets".
Palladium, TCPA and related technologies are restrictive technologies. They are specifically designed to enforce new high restrictions on consumers and to steel control from these consumers, handing it over to big software, hardware and media corporations. Idiot consumers might be fooled to buy the new restrictive hardware and software or the governments will enforce new laws like CBDTPA and the like that will make the use of these technologies mandatory.
Most free software users could not care less about the "goodies" people like you advertise in your propaganda. They are smart enough not to be fooled into buying restrictive software and hardware. Unfortunately they will be the victims of these technologies.
Sooner or later they will not be able to buy non-restrictive hardware because all the Internet will require to use restrictive hardware and software or because there will be no more non-restrictive hardware available on the market. Eventually they will find out that these new restrictions can no longer be disabled in the new hardware. Ultimately they will run out of alternatives, due to market forces big corporations will exercise or due to government imposed laws. "Fighting battles by voting with our wallets" is just wishful thinking.
Enjoy your new restrictive music mp3s and movies at the cost of our freedom.
Do you realize that you actually advertise Palladium and TCPA for the benefit of the big businesses that have a huge stake in Palladium, TCPA and related restrictive technologies? Many big corporations have made a huge investment in these restrictive technologies during the last years. They plan to sell huge quantities of new restrictive hardware and software to idiot consumers during the next years, that will keep their big profits increasing. Consumers' refusal to buy the new restrictive hardware and software is the worst that can happen to their business plans. Therefore they need people like you, who advertise and propagandize Palladium and TCPA to idiot consumers and fool these consumers into believing that it is in their interest to buy the new restrictive hardware and software. And listening to people like you just might fool some idiot, brain-dead consumers to swallow the pill . Many of these fooled consumers will not even realize that they will not actually *buy* the hardware and software, but they will in fact rent them since they will lose full control over their software and hardware, handing over their control to software and hardware providers. Why do you ignore the very serious dangers to our freedom that the widespread use of these restrictive technologies will make possible? Why should users "buy" new hardware and software that imposes huge restrictions on them and steel from them their control over their software and hardware? Do you realize that free software users will be eventually forced to use these restrictive technologies due to the market forces big corporations will exercise or due to government imposed laws (CBDTPA and the like)? People like you are making this horrific future possible...
Just wondering what financial interest makes you to enthusiastically support restrictive techologies like Palladium, TCPA, etc. and probably laws like CBDTPA,... Tell us, what is your stake?
FYI Linux, the kernel, is GPL software. That's right it's GPL'ed (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html). Free as in freedom (a la RMS). Thus, as long as the kernel stays GPL, RMS will be relevant and he will not be banned from lkml.
Microsoft are committed to buy the entire world. In the current "global" environment they can impose that type of laws on almost every country in the world. Being a global corporation is much more effective. Global corporations have increasingly more power than countries and governments (democratic or not).
The worst of all is that people will be forced to use Palladium
or TCPA machines, when laws like CBDTPA (the former SSSCA) will be passed.
Thus, sooner or later, the right to share will be outlawed, and people
will no longer be able to "turn DRM off".
When no TCPA-free or Palladium-free hardware will be available
and the ISPs will only allow TCPA machines to be connected to the Internet,
there will be no alternative.
The worst of all, most of the people are totally unaware that many of their
freedoms are about to be stolen.
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"Free software" = Read "FREE SPEECH" not "free beer".
The love of money is the root of all evil.
(Timothy 6:10)
In other news: Leading free software developers urged Congress and the Bush administration Wednesday not to impose new trade restrictions aimed at keeping CEO, CIO, CFO, COO, CTO, CSO and other director and executive jobs from moving overseas, where executive labor costs are lower. 'There is no job that is Free America's God-given right anymore,' a leading free software developer said Wednesday. 'The problem is not a lack of highly educated CEOs, CIOs, CFOs, COOs, CTOs, CSOs, directors and other executives' said Gnu Hacker founder of the Free Software Association of America. 'The problem is a lack of highly educated CEOs, CIOs, CFOs, COOs, CTOs, CSOs and directors willing to work for the minimum wage or lower in the U.S. Costs are driving outsourcing, not the quality of the American executive business schools.'"
Your statements are false. von Neumann was a Jew and his name reflects this (yiddish). Hungarians did not change their names because Hungary was part of the Austrian empire.
# The%20Holocaust
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Moreover Hungary is notorious for heavily persecuting Jews during the Holocaust. On March 24, 1944 President Roosevelt had to officially warn Hungary to refrain from anti-Jewish measures.
http://www.us-israel.org/jsource/vjw/Hungary.html
"Of the original 825,000 Jews before the war, 260,000 Hungarian Jews survived and 565,000 perished."
This is about one tenth of the victims killed during the Holocaust.
564,500 Jews were sent to the various death-camps run by the Nazis. 438,000 Jews were deported from Hungary to Auschwitz alone.
Read the history, dude:
http://www.holocaust-history.org/hungarian-photos
http://www.jbuff.com/c090403.htm
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Microsoft to Consumers: It is impossible to force restrictions on consumers! And we will provide the ability to break Palladium/TCPA! Forget that we have just invested trillions of dollars in developing Palladium/TCPA that will force new high restrictions on consumers in order to "protect" our incresing big profits from these consumers. Anyway we want you to believe that the system can be easily broken and that it is impossible to force restrictions. Now shut up, buy Palladium/TCPA & go to sleep. Palladium/TCPA is not about restrictions, it is not about DRM. Sweet dreams!
Big corporations have invested massively in developing technologies like Palladium & TCPA. They plan to sell huge quantities of the new restrictive hardware and software to idiot consumers during the next years, that will keep their big profits increasing. Consumers' refusal to buy the new restrictive hardware and software is the worst that can happen to their business plans.
Unfortunately many people are naive, credulous and easily fooled and it is likely that they will not resist a massive PR/disinformation/advertising/marketing campaign. Many of these fooled consumers will not even realize that they will not actually *buy* the hardware and software, but they will in fact *rent* them since they will lose full control over their software and hardware, handing over their control to Palladium/TCPA software and hardware providers.
Considering that DRM will not work just because Microsoft wants us to believe that Palladium & TCPA is not about DRM, is just wishful thinking and another PR move.
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office:
Microsoft's patent on a Digital Rights Management Operating System
http://cryptome.org/ms-drm-os.htm
Microsoft Digital Rights Management Patent Applications Pending 2001-2002
Consumer Broadband and Digital Television Promotion Act
Security Systems Standards and Certification Act
Read the TCPA / Palladium FAQ here:
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/rja14/tcpa-faq.html
23. But isn't PC security a good thing?
The question is: security for whom? You might prefer not to have to worry about viruses, but neither TCPA nor Palladium will fix that: viruses exploit the way software applications (such as Microsoft Office and Outlook) use scripting. You might get annoyed by spam, but that won't get fixed either. (Microsoft implies that it will be fixed, by filtering out all unsigned messages - but the spammers will just buy TCPA PCs. You'd be better off using your existing mail client to filter out mail from people you don't know and putting it in a folder you scan briefly once a day.) You might be worried about privacy, but neither TCPA nor Palladium will fix that; almost all privacy violations result from the abuse of authorised access, often obtained by coercing consent. The medical insurance company that requires you to consent to your data being shared with your employer and with anyone else they can sell it to, isn't going to stop just because their PCs are now officially `secure'. On the contrary, they are likely to sell it even more widely, because computers are now `trusted'.
Economists have noted that when a manufacturer makes a `green' product available, it often increases pollution, as people buy green rather than buying less; we may see a security equivalent of this `social choice trap', as it's called. In addition, by entrenching and expanding monopolies, TCPA will increase the incentives to price discriminate and thus to harvest personal data for profiling.
The most charitable view of TCPA is put forward by a Microsoft researcher: there are some applications in which you want to constrain the user's actions. For example, you want to stop people fiddling with the odometer on a car before they sell it. Similarly, if you want to do DRM on a PC then you need to treat the user as the enemy.
Seen in these terms, TCPA and Palladium do not so much provide security for the user as for the PC vendor, the software supplier, and the content industry. They do not add value for the user, but destroy it. They constrain what you can do with your PC in order to enable application and service vendors to extract more money from you. This is the classic definition of an exploitative cartel - an industry agreement that changes the terms of trade so as to diminish consumer surplus.
No doubt Palladium will be bundled with new features so that the package as a whole appears to add value in the short term, but the long-term economic, social and legal implications require serious thought.
24. So why is this called `Trusted Computing'? I don't see why I should trust it at all!
It's almost an in-joke. In the US Department of Defense, a `trusted system or component' is defined as `one which can break the security policy'. This might seem counter-intuitive at first, but just stop to think about it. The mail guard or firewall that stands between a Secret and a Top Secret system can - if it fails - break the security policy that mail should only ever flow from Secret to Top Secret, but never in the other direction. It is therefore trusted to enforce the information flow policy.
Or take a civilian example: suppose you trust your doctor to keep your medical records private. This means that he has access to your records, so he could leak them to the press if he were careless or malicious. You don't trust me to keep your medical records, because I don't have them; regardless of whether I like you or hate you, I can't do anything to affect your policy that your medical records should be confidential. Your doctor can, though; and the fact that he is in a position to harm you is really what is meant (at a system level) when you say that you trust him. You may have a warm feeling about him, or you may just have to trust him because he is the only doctor on the island where you live; no matter, the DoD definition strips away these fuzzy, emotional aspects of `trust' (that can confuse people).
Remember during the late 1990s, as people debated government control over cryptography, Al Gore proposed a `Trusted Third Party' - a service that would keep a copy of your decryption key safe, just in case you (or the FBI, or the NSA) ever needed it. The name was derided as the sort of marketing exercise that saw the Russian colony of East Germany called a `Democratic Republic'. But it really does chime with DoD thinking. A Trusted Third Party is a third party that can break your security policy.
25. So a `Trusted Computer' is one that can break my security?
Now you've got it.
The user still decides what software is trusted or not.
This is completely false. With Palladium/TCPA the corporations that produce restricted hardware, restricted software and restricted media decide what is trusted on consumers' computers and what it is not.
That is what Palladium & TCPA are indented for: To confine the consumers' abilities in respect to their hardware and software, by creating a system of restrictions, which they call it "trust" in order to fool consumers into buying restricted hardware & software.
http://directory.google.com/Top/Society/Issues/Eco nomic/Monopolies_and_Oligopolies/
s _and_Oligopolies/
http://dmoz.org/Society/Issues/Economic/Monopolie
You do advertise Palladium. End of story.
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Palladium is DRM!
Microsoft's patent on a "Digital Rights Management Operating System"
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1
http://cryptome.org/ms-drm-os.htm
For a full list of Palladium DRM related patents see:
http://cryptome.org/ms-drm-os2.htm
Hardware ID to prevent software piracy
Have you ever heard of monopolies and oligopolies?
If you have not, then go study:
http://directory.google.com/Top/Society/I
http://dmoz.or
"Fighting battles by voting with our wallets" is just wishful thinking.
You lie. And you are making stuff up in order to prop up your weak arguments.
There are people who do not care at all about the "goodies" people like you advertise in your propaganda. But they do care a lot about their freedom. Palladium and TCPA is going to severely restrict people's freedom.
And why you are at it, get a clue. You are just making stuff up trying to sound ominous and foreboding. You are in fact talking DRM: "Pirates and digital copyright infringers..."
Rubbish. A company that has no real competitors is a monopoly. A cable company, a DSL provider, a dial-up provider, a satellite provider, and a cellular dial-up provider, they all provide very different services. It is like saying that even if we have a single bicycle manufacturer and a single car manufacturer, then we will have no monopoly. It's pretty evident that you don't have the slightest idea what "monopoly" means.
What you see as a "merit" can be very harmful for others who could not care less about the "goodies" people like you advertise in your propaganda.
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For more information read:
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/rja14/tcpa-f
Please don't trade our freedom for some rubbish music & movies.
Your views on this issue are very limited and naive and you seem to be very credulous. It is completely false and ridiculous that you can "fight" some sort of "battle by voting with our wallets".
Palladium, TCPA and related technologies are restrictive technologies. They are specifically designed to enforce new high restrictions on consumers and to steel control from these consumers, handing it over to big software, hardware and media corporations. Idiot consumers might be fooled to buy the new restrictive hardware and software or the governments will enforce new laws like CBDTPA and the like that will make the use of these technologies mandatory.
Most free software users could not care less about the "goodies" people like you advertise in your propaganda. They are smart enough not to be fooled into buying restrictive software and hardware. Unfortunately they will be the victims of these technologies.
Sooner or later they will not be able to buy non-restrictive hardware because all the Internet will require to use restrictive hardware and software or because there will be no more non-restrictive hardware available on the market. Eventually they will find out that these new restrictions can no longer be disabled in the new hardware. Ultimately they will run out of alternatives, due to market forces big corporations will exercise or due to government imposed laws. "Fighting battles by voting with our wallets" is just wishful thinking.
Enjoy your new restrictive music mp3s and movies at the cost of our freedom.
Technology can be used for very evil goals.
Grow up.
Your views on this issue are very limited and naive and you seem to be very credulous. It is completely false and ridiculous that you can "fight" some sort of "battle by voting with our wallets".
Palladium, TCPA and related technologies are restrictive technologies. They are specifically designed to enforce new high restrictions on consumers and to steel control from these consumers, handing it over to big software, hardware and media corporations. Idiot consumers might be fooled to buy the new restrictive hardware and software or the governments will enforce new laws like CBDTPA and the like that will make the use of these technologies mandatory.
Most free software users could not care less about the "goodies" people like you advertise in your propaganda. They are smart enough not to be fooled into buying restrictive software and hardware. Unfortunately they will be the victims of these technologies.
Sooner or later they will not be able to buy non-restrictive hardware because all the Internet will require to use restrictive hardware and software or because there will be no more non-restrictive hardware available on the market. Eventually they will find out that these new restrictions can no longer be disabled in the new hardware. Ultimately they will run out of alternatives, due to market forces big corporations will exercise or due to government imposed laws. "Fighting battles by voting with our wallets" is just wishful thinking.
Enjoy your new restrictive music mp3s and movies at the cost of our freedom.
Do you realize that you actually advertise Palladium and TCPA for the benefit of the big businesses that have a huge stake in Palladium, TCPA and related restrictive technologies?
Many big corporations have made a huge investment in these restrictive technologies during the last years. They plan to sell huge quantities of new restrictive hardware and software to idiot consumers during the next years, that will keep their big profits increasing. Consumers' refusal to buy the new restrictive hardware and software is the worst that can happen to their business plans.
Therefore they need people like you, who advertise and propagandize Palladium and TCPA to idiot consumers and fool these consumers into believing that it is in their interest to buy the new restrictive hardware and software.
And listening to people like you just might fool some idiot, brain-dead consumers to swallow the pill . Many of these fooled consumers will not even realize that they will not actually *buy* the hardware and software, but they will in fact rent them since they will lose full control over their software and hardware, handing over their control to software and hardware providers.
Why do you ignore the very serious dangers to our freedom that the widespread use of these restrictive technologies will make possible?
Why should users "buy" new hardware and software that imposes huge restrictions on them and steel from them their control over their software and hardware?
Do you realize that free software users will be eventually forced to use these restrictive technologies due to the market forces big corporations will exercise or due to government imposed laws (CBDTPA and the like)?
People like you are making this horrific future possible...
Just wondering what financial interest makes you to enthusiastically support restrictive techologies like Palladium, TCPA, etc. and probably laws like CBDTPA, ...
Tell us, what is your stake?
Do you work for Microsoft?
FYI Linux, the kernel, is GPL software.
That's right it's GPL'ed (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html).
Free as in freedom (a la RMS).
Thus, as long as the kernel stays GPL, RMS will be relevant and he will not be banned from lkml.
Microsoft are committed to buy the entire world.
In the current "global" environment they can impose that type of laws on almost every country in the world.
Being a global corporation is much more effective. Global corporations have increasingly more power than countries and governments (democratic or not).
The worst of all is that people will be forced to use Palladium or TCPA machines, when laws like CBDTPA (the former SSSCA) will be passed.
Thus, sooner or later, the right to share will be outlawed, and people will no longer be able to "turn DRM off".
When no TCPA-free or Palladium-free hardware will be available and the ISPs will only allow TCPA machines to be connected to the Internet, there will be no alternative.
The worst of all, most of the people are totally unaware that many of their freedoms are about to be stolen.
For an introduction see:
http://action.eff.org/tinseltown/
http://www.eff.org/IP/SSSCA_CBDTPA/
TCPA / Palladium Frequently Asked Questions
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/rja14/tcpa-faq.html
"The Right to Read" by Richard M. Stallman.
http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html
(The important thing about this story is that it was written before the DMCA was even proposed!)
"What's Wrong With Copy Protection" by John Gilmore.
http://cryptome.org/jg-wwwcp.htm
Talk about bullshit. DRM is useless if the user can turn it off.
Have you ever heard about CBDTPA (the former SSSCA)?
For a good introduction see:
http://action.eff.org/tinseltown/ and http://www.eff.org/IP/SSSCA_CBDTPA/
When such laws will pass, you will no longer be able to turn DRM off.
Sooner or later you will be forced to live with DRM, and the right to share will be forbidden.
Wrong. Palladium is here already:9 /03/185923 7
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/0
Wrong. Palladium is already here: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/09/03/185923 7