RE: [tlug] Re: [CoLoCo] RESPECT MICROSOFT

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stephen J. Turnbull
> Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2007 10:43 PM
>  
> Ah, true at the moment, but that is not true of all forms of DRM.
> Some of the proposals for DRM, if enacted, would require that the OS
> buy into patented technology (with "fair and nondiscriminatory"
> royalties), effectively shutting out open source OSes.
> 

I haven't seen the data on that yet.
If you are talking file formats though, then it would
still be up to the content providers to enforce it.
That is part of the current problem, is that the
commercial OSes ARE pretty much being forced into the DRM
issue.  MS pretty much got knocked arround by the Media
industry.  I can't say how much of a fight they put up though.
I don't have enough information to give a solid comment there.