Re: [Freedos-user] [OT] DRM and Free Software...the perspective of the OpenGEM chap

2006-03-30 Thread Shane M. Coughlan
chris evans wrote: > Who defines this assumed trust in software? The user of the > manufacturer? The way I see it the file can have a crc or md5 signed > trusted info block to verify who wrote/and distributed it. and the user > can have control over which is excluded. In 'Trusted Computing' the us

Re: [Freedos-user] [OT] DRM and Free Software...the perspective of the OpenGEM chap

2006-03-30 Thread Shane M. Coughlan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 BruceIrving wrote: > That is a very thoughtful and interesting article, Shane. We need more > information of this type and, you are right, we NEED to discuss it. In the > past, DRM fell into the same category as Microsoft's COM -- it does > somethi