The holiday season hasn't gone exactly as Microsoft had hoped and Ballmer sits down with CNET News.com to discuss life after Vista, battling the iPod, and the rising importance of mobile devices.
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Linux misses out on DRM, WGA, product keys, license keys, time-limited software, activation, EULAs, most of the security holes ...
I think open source has its share of security holes. Certainly Firefox does.
DRM is sort of security blanket for companies who want to let you download movies like the XBOX 360 allows now.
But I think the person was talking about some of these features:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Features_new_to_Windows_Vista
Member since:2005-11-11
//DRM is sort of security blanket for companies who want to let you download movies like the XBOX 360 allows now. //
No. DRM is a whole lot of big corporations trying to dictate what you can and cannot do with your own machine. hen the talk of "Digital Rights" ... they don't mean your rights.
It underlies the whole point of you not owning the software, and therefore not really owning your own machine. Very unappealing.
//Web content blocking.
File downloads may also be disabled.
Time limitations on when the account may be used
Restrictions on what kind of games may be played.//
Another long list of "you may not do".
Lots of things Vista doesn't do here, aren't there?
//Activity reports to monitor what was done under Parental Controls
Ability to log actions such as Instant Messaging conversations //
My oh my, how very Big-Brother-like.
I think the kids are probably just going to plug in a Linux Live CD and be done with all that nonsense.
Edited 2006-12-08 05:58
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Don't worry. Linux will have most of the applicable features within six to eight months, long before Microsoft ships Windows Fiji (which will only be a incremental upgrade).
But will Linux ever have any new features no one else has? Copying Microsoft would be kind of lame if everything claimed about Microsoft on this site was true.
Why copy Microsoft? Why not innovate?
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2005-11-11
//yeah and Linux still doesn't have half of the features as Vista.//
You may have a point.
Linux misses out on DRM, WGA, product keys, license keys, time-limited software, activation, EULAs, most of the security holes, proprietary lock-in and a whole raft of malware.
//Well, maybe in 2012 they will finally catch up.//
I sincerely hope not.
Edited 2006-12-08 05:46