Software rental, "trusted computing", etc. (was Re: Is this for real -- a new C64/128)

From: allisonp <allisonp_at_world.std.com>
Date: Tue May 16 18:40:27 2000

>Some cite free software as a force to prevent this kind of madness. Right


>But eventually we might have a situation where commodity hardware can only
>run officially sanctioned operating systems, and hardware that is capable
>of running free software can't run the official stuff.


That and old platforms that are not of the "trusted" archetecture.

>As I see it, the only way this is likely to be averted is if free software
>develops a sufficiently broad deployment that the market for computers
>that can't run it is insufficient to satisfy the vendors.


...and enough old hardware to make it a battle.

Allison
Received on Tue May 16 2000 - 18:40:27 BST

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