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

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@example.com>]

Curt Sampson writes:

 > choses to add DRM or not. One example, from more than a decade ago,
 > is consumer DAT players; they always add a "no-copy" bit

Many font editors do the same thing, which turned out to be a real
dumb move for DRM advocates as they lost big on attempts to get people
locked up for distributing software to reset the no-copy bit.

 > No, as you point out, everybody has a choice. MS and Intel are moving
 > toward supporting very strong DRM, but they don't have to do that.

Sure they do, if the market demands it.  The question is whether that
will be exclusive.

By the way, interesting things are happening right now in electronic
voting, with the New York State law requiring escrow of designs and
code for *all* hardware and software in voting machines:

http://nyvv.org/blog/bolipariblog.html