[Ham-Mac] The dark lining in the silver cloud

[Michael Miller]

All

The thing I worry about is that in two years' time the only kind of  
PC, desktop or laptop, most of us will be able to buy will have an  
Intel CPU in it. If Intel builds in the kind of Digital Restrictions  
Management (DRM) that Hollywood has been demanding, you won't have a  
choice about skipping the coming attractions and other ads on a DVD,  
pulling a still from a DVD or a short audio clip from a CD. And you  
may not be able to run Linux or other "unsigned" binaries on your  
shiny new hardware either.

Strikes me about as smart as seat belt interlocks -- remember them,  
back in '74? Lasted exactly one model year. But that was when you  
still had some choices.

-=- Michael Miller, KC0NXN
mike_miller at acm.org
http://homepage.mac.com/mike_miller