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Re: [Clips] [dave@farber.net: [IP] Apple tries to patent 'tamper-resistant software']
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Florian Weimer)
Sun Nov 13 11:33:55 2005
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From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
To: "R. A. Hettinga" <rah@shipwright.com>
Cc: cryptography@metzdowd.com
Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2005 21:18:37 +0100
In-Reply-To: <p06230959bf992d540720@[68.167.57.91]> (R. A. Hettinga's message
of "Thu, 10 Nov 2005 12:01:11 -0500")
* R. A. Hettinga:
> By Ina Fried
> <http://news.com.com/Apple+tries+to+patent+tamper-resistant+software/
> 2100-1045_3-5942107.html>
The patent application seems to be this one:
<http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PG01&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=%2220050246554%22.PGNR.&OS=DN/20050246554&RS=DN/20050246554>
Note that it covers some stuff that does in fact work, for example
claim 9 (although there is plenty of prior art for this one).
Unfortunately, the things that can work are in the wrong direction:
Apple can prevent you from running anything but Mac OS X on your Intel
Mac. What they really want to do (at least according to press
reports) is to stop you from copying Mac OS X to your other Intel box.
Big difference.
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