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Re: Microsoft: Palladium will not limit what you can run
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Birger Toedtmann)
Sat Mar 15 12:20:06 2003
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Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2003 19:17:50 +0100
From: Birger Toedtmann <birger@takatukaland.de>
To: cryptography@wasabisystems.com
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Jeroen C. van Gelderen schrieb am Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 12:38:14AM -0500:
[...]
>
> Obviously a vendor can restrict what kind of software runs on the
> hardware he sells, either by contract or trough technical means. In the
> latter case the consumer is of course free to circumvent the barriers,
> provided that he lives in a free country. If he doesn't like the
> vendor's policy, he is of course free to vote with his wallet.
If all vendors have agreed to the same policy [TCPA] you may experiece
problems when trying to manufacture your own MB/cpu at home.
Voting does not make sense without alternatives.
So DRM with collusion of too many vendors will be a problem that even
market forces cannot solve easily if it is hard for newcomers to enter
the market segment (who has the money to set up a chip plant?).
Birger
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