Re: grub to help refund of pre-installations

2008-08-05 Thread Vesa Jääskeläinen
Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote: On Saturday 12 July 2008 16:59:20 Michael Gorven wrote: On Saturday 12 July 2008 16:39:21 Robert Millan wrote: On Tue, Jul 08, 2008 at 08:24:33AM +0200, Michael Gorven wrote: On Tuesday 08 July 2008 07:32:40 Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote: This news, basically, says that m

Re: grub to help refund of pre-installations

2008-07-15 Thread Robert Millan
On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 03:43:39PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > and when they're only left with their illegitimate features, [...] or maybe I should say "anti-features" -- Robert Millan I know my rights; I want my phone call! What good is a phone call… if you are unable to speak? (as seen on

Re: grub to help refund of pre-installations

2008-07-15 Thread Robert Millan
On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 03:45:18AM +0200, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote: > On Tuesday 08 July 2008 07:57:30 Jean-Christophe Haessig wrote: > > Le mardi 08 juillet 2008 à 07:32 +0200, Yoshinori K. Okuji a écrit : > > > > > > > > In fact, you want to write a GRUB module which deciphers a partition > > wh

Re: grub to help refund of pre-installations

2008-07-12 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
On Saturday 12 July 2008 16:59:20 Michael Gorven wrote: > On Saturday 12 July 2008 16:39:21 Robert Millan wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 08, 2008 at 08:24:33AM +0200, Michael Gorven wrote: > > > On Tuesday 08 July 2008 07:32:40 Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote: > > > > This news, basically, says that my company wi

Re: grub to help refund of pre-installations

2008-07-12 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
On Tuesday 08 July 2008 07:57:30 Jean-Christophe Haessig wrote: > Le mardi 08 juillet 2008 à 07:32 +0200, Yoshinori K. Okuji a écrit : > > > > In fact, you want to write a GRUB module which deciphers a partition > when given a key. That's no DRM in any way. In the DRM world, users > don't (and can

Re: grub to help refund of pre-installations

2008-07-12 Thread Michael Gorven
On Saturday 12 July 2008 16:39:21 Robert Millan wrote: > On Tue, Jul 08, 2008 at 08:24:33AM +0200, Michael Gorven wrote: > > On Tuesday 08 July 2008 07:32:40 Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote: > > > This news, basically, says that my company will provide a solution to > > > activating pre-installed software

Re: grub to help refund of pre-installations

2008-07-12 Thread Robert Millan
On Tue, Jul 08, 2008 at 08:24:33AM +0200, Michael Gorven wrote: > On Tuesday 08 July 2008 07:32:40 Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote: > > This news, basically, says that my company will provide a solution to > > activating pre-installed software in a computer, after entering an access > > code with cryptogr

Re: grub to help refund of pre-installations

2008-07-07 Thread Michael Gorven
On Tuesday 08 July 2008 07:32:40 Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote: > This news, basically, says that my company will provide a solution to > activating pre-installed software in a computer, after entering an access > code with cryptography, using GRUB 2. I have been working on adding support for encrypted

Re: grub to help refund of pre-installations

2008-07-07 Thread Jean-Christophe Haessig
Le mardi 08 juillet 2008 à 07:32 +0200, Yoshinori K. Okuji a écrit : In fact, you want to write a GRUB module which deciphers a partition when given a key. That's no DRM in any way. In the DRM world, users don't (and can't) get the real keys. JC -- AVIS : Falsifier le contenu et usurper l'ide

grub to help refund of pre-installations

2008-07-07 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
Hello, Some french-speaking people might have read this, but I would like to explain some ideas, since I am involved with this news somehow: http://www.zdnet.fr/actualites/informatique/0,39040745,39382177,00.htm This news, basically, says that my company will provide a solution to activating p