[Gllug] Finally some mainstream coverage of EUCD

[Formi]

On Tue, 11 Nov 2003, Christopher Hunter wrote:

> On Tuesday 11 Nov 2003 12:04 am, Mike Brodbelt wrote:
>
> //snip//
>
> > In 5 years, if the RIAA/MPAA/BFPI have their way, we'll all be running
> > Longhorn, content will all be encrypted, the hardware will be
> > tamper-proofed with Palladium, disks will have the CPRM stuff thats in
> > them already turned on, and the open PC architecture will be dead.
> >
> > I actually think that the single biggest threat to that plan is Linux
> > getting enough of a foothold on the desktop to stop it being possible to
> > lock everything down. The time from now until the release of Longhorn
> > may well be the most critical period in the PC industry.
> >
> > Mike.
>
> You're possibly right.  One view is that Palladium / Longhorn will be the end
> of cheaply available computing, and that "copy-protection" schemes of
> ever-increasing complexity will be included in all media.
>
> Another view - Palladium / Longhorn won't work (after all, we're talking about
> MS products here!), and each new "copy-protection" method will be bypassed as
> soon as it's released!
>
> Luckily, Linux is rapidly becoming "mainstream", and as soon as it is
> generally perceived as easy to use and more reliable, a greater proportion of
> the (largely) computer-illiterate masses will make the migration away from
> closed-source.
>
> We already have (largely) self-installing distros, and we just need to get
> "usability" really right, and we can stop worrying.  The in-fighting and
> politicking within the OS community will have to stop, and we must accept the
> "windowed graphical desktop" as the general default method of use!
>
> Chris


  I think you are being a bit too optimistic, think about the win-modem
 issue, how many new-users to be have given up because one single piece of
 hardware was troublesome?

  I believe the most important hardware issue to come our way will be
 "extra feautures" built into the the processors, Both Intel and AMD have
 already been forced to add them.

 On the other side people keep buying brand new hardware...

 Formi.



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