Apocalypse

    I decided to draw my opinion on one important issue, which I debated with some of my friends before the snot. Everything below is IMHO, reckoning only with its (rich?) Experience.


    1 - I believe that this technology, applied to digital content, violates my right to the presumption of innocence. That is, I am found guilty in advance that I will unauthorized and dishonest copy content. That is, not to say use it in different players, but to share with the whole world or resell.

    2 - as a technology for protecting code from counterfeiting at the iron level in certain conditions - great. For example, when the firmware of a machine or workstation program of a bank employee is protected from running unnecessary code for us.

    3 - this technology is evil in the form that it was implemented in Vista, when Mikrosovt periodically checks me for lice and does not allow me to use programs the way I want it to.

    4 - I do not believe that the progressive onset of DRM will lead to the apocalypse described by Stallman in The Right to Read. Fortunately, such an apocalypse is not beneficial for all market players (what the hell, it is not very beneficial for many), which means that there will always be those who supply DRM software implemented in a “good” form, that is, as part of security or as “unobtrusive "Restrictions. Now it is Apple from the manufacturers of players and Linux / BSD / Sun / Macos from the OS. There will be some balance, as it is now and has always been.

    5 - I believe that the fact that ordinary users will have to pay for everything is a very good thing. Because then the market will have a controlling influence and people will begin to think about what they use and for what. And now the managing influence is somewhat clumsy because it is very difficult to compete with free Photoshop and WinXP. The fact of mandatory payment is more likely to reduce the user bases of the absolute leaders of today's market, since currently people mostly hammer nails with microscopes, and these microscopes, in their opinion, should be very expensive, of a certain shape and color, but for free.

    6 - the current DRM offensive - the pendulum backtrack from total piracy, which set the stage for total surveillance. As soon as users begin to feel a real inconvenience from DRM, there will immediately be those who offer to buy a solution to this inconvenience.

    7 - The same as it was in the 95-200th year, when there was 1 cheap architecture and 1 OS "for housewives and secretaries" (and free!) Will never happen again. Who heard in Linux about 98m? Who in their right mind bought Macs at 99m? So, MS superprofits will be at least not over.

    It also seems to me that what happens to the consoles with cellular phones in terms of launching a code not certified by the manufacturer in general-purpose computers will not happen due to the strong dispersion of interests and the number of players. I hope there will be no total dominance of any OSes.

    In my support, I’ll bring the shadows of monsters that were once no less cool than MS. This is DEC and IBM, well, a little less clogged HP and SUN :-). And don’t say that VAX or OS / 2 were great systems - that’s your nostalgia.

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