MS DRM OS

[David Honig]

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 at 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.