POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Public key cryptography : Re: Public key cryptography Server Time
5 Sep 2024 13:14:36 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Public key cryptography  
From: Orchid XP v8
Date: 11 Jul 2009 06:28:33
Message: <4a586951$1@news.povray.org>
Jim Henderson wrote:
> On Fri, 10 Jul 2009 13:37:36 -0400, Warp wrote:
> 
>> Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
>>> Some people are predicting that in the future, regular computers will
>>> work in this way, to prevent anybody running anything that can
>>> circumvent DRM.
>>   Then Microsoft will have a huge party for having at last destroyed
>>   Linux
>> with its 3% market share.
> 
> Right before they get their butts sued for anticompetitive behaviour 
> (again). ;-)

Last time I checked, Microsoft don't make PC hardware. Whoever controls 
the keys required to make the BIOS boot your OS would be sued if they 
only gave those keys to Microsoft and nobody else.

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