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From: dgk 
Newsgroups: alt.os.linux.ubuntu
Subject: Re: Problems after installing Ubuntu (fairly long)
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 18:34:10 -0500
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On 26 Feb 2007 18:20:15 GMT, elaich  wrote:

>dgk  wrote in news:kv76u2pqa68q000lti06j1jaeaj9rkt98f@
>4ax.com:
>
>>  This
>> whole DRM thing is not being driven my Microsoft; it's being driven by
>> the "content providers". 
>
>Oh, I don't agree with that. Bill Gates has been obsessed over piracy for 
>a long time, maybe because he is one:
>
>http://www.digitalresearch.biz/index.htm
>
>Gates has long been moaning over pirated copies of Windows being used 
>everywhere, but especially in the Third World. Vista goes a long ways 
>towards locking up the holes that allowed Windows to be pirated. I can't 
>blame Bill for wanting to protect his intellectual property, but better 
>believe he marches in lockstep with the RIAA and SAG over DRM. It's a 
>win-win situation for them - HOWEVER, as long as "holes" in the DRM 
>system like Linux and Mac (and old versions of Windows) remain, there 
>will be war. Tha's why I expect that, once Vista is firmly entrenched (3 
>years maybe?) that Microsoft will finally go after Linux with no holds 
>barred.
>
>Microsoft's vision is one day your computer will merely be a dumb 
>terminal that has to connect with the Microsoft servers to do anything. 
>Access to software and the OS will depend on that connection. Vista takes 
>the first step toward that, with Microsoft having the ability to cripple 
>programs and the OS if something unkosher is found. 

No, actually that was Larry Ellison's idea, the Internet Appliance.
And now Google with their "office" applications. Why install Office if
you can just use Google's servers?

I can't see why a company that sells operating systems would ever be
in the business of making an operating system irrelevant and just have
a VT100, which is essentially what a browser is.

Nope, I have to disagree. In fact, much of the latest DotNet framework
3.0 stuff (xaml  and WPF in particular) appear designed to make
creating Windows apps (now called Installed apps) easier to install
and maintain. That is a direct response to the ease of running browser
based apps.
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