I don't believe Microsoft will go Open Source, successfully at least. They've resisted all this time, so if and when they did go Open Source, I just don't think the interest would be there to support the product the way that Linux has been supported.
I picture in my mind, many gleeful hackers and an overwhelming wave of new exploits, that might in fact cause more people to switch to Linux, where the support community is much more on top of things, and a reliable infrastructure is in place.
Interesting. However, the first part of the argument: Marinus van der Lubbe started the Reichstag is a point of historical debate. Although Marinus van der Lubbe was found guilty of the crime..... c'mon it was Nazi Germany prosecuting him. Hitler and his cronies set fire to the Reichstag.
Bush did not fly planes into the World Trade Center and Pentagon.
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And the reason the Nazi's needed to be defeated was the fact that they attacked and invaded other countries, just as the US is now doing.
I think you're oversimplifying things here. Nazi Germany set out on its invasions because it was exactly what Hitler said needed to be done in Mein Kampf, years earlier. He was doing it to gain back land which he thought was Germany's and also felt he needed to help the superior German people expand.
But what if John Doe's CD had a different key embedded within the audio than Jane Doe's CD? John Doe then registers his CD for his various pieces of hardware.
Having to distribute the hardware key (which should not be easy to access) along with the audio (with embedded key) would thwart all but the most dedicated thieves: To play the songs you would have to program your hardware and create a CD.
Create a solution to both of your possibilities, and become a wealthy person.
It seems that to solve this problem, there is going to need to be a change in the media and/or the hardware that it is played on. Some sort of encryption key swapping comes to mind.
For instance, if each individual media sold had a unique "media" key associated with it, and the purchaser then validated the sale by downloading a "play" key for each piece of hardware where the media would be played, the problem of file-sharing would be more difficult. You would then have to distribute the "play" key along with the media in order to copy it.
Lots of holes in that idea, still, but someone will come up with a way to do it, make lots of money, and then become an object of hatred for P2P users everywhere.;)
As I was so kindly corrected, "He" is a "She". And from her website....
I own a dual Intel Celeron 2x533 Mhz system with a 3Dfx Voodoo5, Creative SBlive! and 256 MB SDRAM, powered by the best Operating System out there, the BeOS (among 6-7 more OSes also installed, including QNX RtP, Windows XP PRO, Gentoo, Mandrake, Lycoris, Xandros, & Red Hat Linux, Syllable and MacOS 8.1 under emulation).
One of the McCabe tools (McCabe Reengineer) already does this. It is an easy way to quickly pick out areas of great complexity in your system and then focus your efforts there. While loops, if statements and case statments stick out in my mind as being quite recognizable.
However, it doesn't do anything at all to give you information about what the program _does_. But it's a nice tool nonetheless.
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I picture in my mind, many gleeful hackers and an overwhelming wave of new exploits, that might in fact cause more people to switch to Linux, where the support community is much more on top of things, and a reliable infrastructure is in place.
Wait, let me guess ... Before the exploit code can execute, Windows blue screens?
Bush did not fly planes into the World Trade Center and Pentagon.
I think you're oversimplifying things here. Nazi Germany set out on its invasions because it was exactly what Hitler said needed to be done in Mein Kampf, years earlier. He was doing it to gain back land which he thought was Germany's and also felt he needed to help the superior German people expand.
That is not what is happening here.
Having to distribute the hardware key (which should not be easy to access) along with the audio (with embedded key) would thwart all but the most dedicated thieves: To play the songs you would have to program your hardware and create a CD.
It seems that to solve this problem, there is going to need to be a change in the media and/or the hardware that it is played on. Some sort of encryption key swapping comes to mind.
For instance, if each individual media sold had a unique "media" key associated with it, and the purchaser then validated the sale by downloading a "play" key for each piece of hardware where the media would be played, the problem of file-sharing would be more difficult. You would then have to distribute the "play" key along with the media in order to copy it.
Lots of holes in that idea, still, but someone will come up with a way to do it, make lots of money, and then become an object of hatred for P2P users everywhere. ;)
The DRM advocates must choose the Napsterization Model: It is potentially the most damaging, in terms of profits.
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One of the McCabe tools (McCabe Reengineer) already does this. It is an easy way to quickly pick out areas of great complexity in your system and then focus your efforts there. While loops, if statements and case statments stick out in my mind as being quite recognizable. However, it doesn't do anything at all to give you information about what the program _does_. But it's a nice tool nonetheless.