This article from The Register www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/26517.html is another example of why I'm so anti-Windows XP and anti-Microsoft right now. They've got to be kidding. Like I'm going to sign this:
"You acknowledge and agree that Microsoft may automatically check the version of the OS Product and/or its components that you are utilizing and may provide upgrades or fixes to the OS Product that will be automatically downloaded to your computer,"
Bottom line - I want the freedom to control my computer, or designate who I give that control to. That's true whether I'm an individual or a corporation. What the MSerfs propose is absurd, and irritating. This might be the thing that pushes me to Apple and/or Linux. But what about the masses...?
The whole DRM thing has got me worried. The Internet has done great things in freeing up public expression and making rational thought available to people across the world's antiquated boundaries. If MS-style digital rights management gets into the hands of Congress, I really fear for our future. Two hundred years of progress toward free speech could be lost, in Internet time.
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