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From: Joe LaVigne 
Newsgroups: alt.os.linux.ubuntu
Subject: Re: Problems after installing Ubuntu (fairly long)
Date: 26 Feb 2007 03:07:17 GMT
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On Sun, 25 Feb 2007 17:06:49 +0000, elaich wrote:

> dgk  wrote in 
> news:h6v1u2dbgh04aj57r5p2tjbntis2tjm4v2@4ax.com:
> 
>> All except the DRM crap. 
> 
> That's it, and the rumors that once Vista is well entrenched, M$ plans to 
> try to use the DMCA to force hardware manufacturers to make hardware that 
> will be "Vista compatible" that is, hardware that will only run on Vista, 
> and nothing else, not even older versions of Windows. THAT is how they 
> intend to kill Linux. Somone who so much as writes a driver for any other 
> OS will be prosecuted under the DMCA. Sure, we can keep using our old 
> hardware, which will eventually become obsolete and break down.
>

I am not sure that this would fly.  It would fly fully in the face of the
previous anti-trust judgment against them.  If they try it, you can bet
your ass that they will be in Federal court within hours of sending out
the new DMCA...
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