At 12:38 AM 12/19/01 +0000, Graham Lally wrote:
Ralph Wallis wrote:
On Monday, 17 Dec 2001 at 07:58, Michael Motyka <mmotyka@lsil.com> wrote:
Could someone who knows more than I do explain to me why this MS "IP" is anything other than making the owner of a PC unable to have root access to their own hardware/OS? If so it seems to be an idea unworthy of protection from lawyers and men with guns.
A more correct analogy is with speed limiters on cars.
On your own roads. And the car maker tells you where you can go to. And which route you have to take. And where you can end up. And then forces you to pay for a map.
And tells you which brand of gasoline you can burn under penalty of law for using others. And treats go-carts as circumvention devices.