Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 10:59:41 07/03/02
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On July 02, 2002 at 17:40:36, Keith Evans wrote:
>On July 02, 2002 at 16:12:07, Christophe Theron wrote:
>
>>On July 01, 2002 at 20:33:31, Keith Evans wrote:
>>
>>>On July 01, 2002 at 20:00:29, Christophe Theron wrote:
>>>
>>>>On July 01, 2002 at 17:52:18, Daniel Clausen wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>On June 30, 2002 at 23:59:59, Christophe Theron wrote:
>>>>>
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>>
>>> What legal issues would
>>>prevent you from doing this? Some third party code or data that you would have
>>>to bundle in?
>>
>>
>>I'm still not certain I have the right to release it without releasing the
>>source code.
>
>I'm pretty sure that you're safe here. At our company we run closed source
>commercial software under Linux. Some of the packages cost over $100,000 each
>and require access to a license server to run. (So you can only run the licensed
>number of copies, and so you are forced to pay your yearly software tax.)
>Believe me, if there were a legal way to force them to make their source
>available it would have happened by now.
>
>>Also, I need to talk about this with the company that has the rights on the PC
>>version of Chess Tiger.
>>
>>>Did you see the news about Microsoft's Palladium? I'll be really interested to
>>>see Bruce Schneier's comments on that.
>>
>>No idea what you are talking about. Yet...
>
>Something that might make you even more happy that you're looking for
>alternatives. When people say they want to protect you, they often really want
>to control you. If you go and read about it, keep in mind that people have
>already managed to hack the xbox... And if you ever want to read interesting
>articles about cryptography/security check out
>http://www.counterpane.com/crypto-gram.html (Some people are absolutely
>brilliant when it comes to discovering and exploiting design flaws. For example
>is it obvious that measuring the power draw of a device could help you break a
>system? This would probably be a good subject for the Thinkers Forum.)
>
>Keith
Yes I have now read the Palladium announcement bullshit.
That's big brother for real this time.
The record companies (backed by Microsoft) would go to any extend to suck out as
much money as possible from us. If technology allowed it, they would put little
nuclear bombs inside the CD readers and threaten that any attempt to read a
pirated CD will result in the explosion of the bomb.
But I did not need to wait for this announcement to decide that I need to get
rid of Microsoft.
Naturally it's all about controlling us. That's what Microsoft is quietly doing
since several years now.
Christophe
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