At 09:42 AM 7/3/2002 Wednesday, Marc Branchaud wrote: >By patenting the DRMOS, only M$ will be allowed to create such a beast (OK, >they could license the patent without restrictions -- pardon me while I pick >myself up off the floor). This means that the rest of the planet's OSes >will have nothing even approaching DRM functionality, because nobody wants >to be sued by M$. > >That's good, but OTOH other OSes will not build anything approaching secure >computing either, for the same reason.
That seems like a complete non-sequitur. Why won't others build secure OSes? MS didn't patent security (not that I've heard anyway). For example, how is EROS http://www.eros-os.org threatened by these MS patents? ---------------------------------------- Text by me above is hereby placed in the public domain Cheers, --MarkM --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
