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On Wednesday 31 January 2007 10:38, പ്രവീണ്‍‌|Praveen എ|A wrote:

Vista DRM Cracked on Launch Day

A ReactOS developer and first year student of bachelor's degree in software engineering Alex Ionescu [1] from Canada has blogged about a way to bypass the PMP (Protected Media Path), a DRM technique used in Windows Vista. Read the blog here [2]

I'm not convinced that putting Winduhs down is the right way to go about promoting freedom and/or free software. What does the list think?

Instead of harping on Winduhs' weaknesses, maybe we should be talking about how it takes freedom away and entraps users. I don't know if this ha already been posted to this list, but the definitive analysis of Fistula's various DRM capabilities and their impact on the end user is available at:

http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_cost.html

Regards,

- -- Raju - -- Raj Mathur            raju@kandalaya.org   http://kandalaya.org/        GPG: 78D4 FC67 367F 40E2 0DD5  0FEF C968 D0EF CC68 D17F                       It is the mind that moves

On Wed, 2007-01-31 at 12:13 +0530, Raj Mathur wrote:

I'm not convinced that putting Winduhs down is the right way to go about promoting freedom and/or free software. What does the list think?

While we need to stress on freedom, it may sometimes become necessary to tell users of M$ Windows about the problems with their system too. In that sense, it may be useful to know about the strengths and weaknesses (or features) of other non-free OSes. In that sense, it may be useful to know such things. The link you have sent is also very useful.

Instead of harping on Winduhs' weaknesses, maybe we should be talking about how it takes freedom away and entraps users. I don't know if this ha already been posted to this list, but the definitive analysis of Fistula's various DRM capabilities and their impact on the end user is available at:

http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_cost.html

Regards,

• -- Raju

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