Don't worry about it.

With TCPA mandated by the feds, you will not be able to: (A. run any thing you patch (B. run anything you create to solve a problem (C. get any modified version from the "registered creator" of your package until they re-register the modified version at a high cost and unknown delay (D. run anything you create to provide a temporary or permanent workaround (E. get anything from some one else who can't afford to register it and run that (F. implement any new ideas you have unless you can afford to register and [therefore probably necessarily] market it (G. do anything on your own initiative unless it has been predicted by and accepted by and provided for by the software owner (H. use any of your own data without their ability to inspect and delete anything the program owner "=MS" doesn't like (I. do ANYTHING if your network connection goes down (J. run your laptop unless you can get it connected into the global network (K. do anything which is computer-supported or computer-enabled in an out-of-range area (L. work for yourself or anyone who isn't part of the ruling regime "=MS" and can have approved "development cpus" (M. talk about it online with anyone MS doesn't approve of (N. find any data online that MS chooses to suppress (O. etc...

Your company and you (unless a TCPA/TCG member) are probably unable to stay in business. You probably don't like that, but MS can try to get lots of money from China. Maybe that will prop up the fractured U.S. economy, crashed stock markets all around the world, and paralyzed (or looted) banking industry. At least you can get a cell phone and talk to your friends about it until MS gets semantic control of audio streams and of video images.

What, me worry? Maybe..., they did get the bill passed several years ago that created contracting recruiters as "employers" so we can't contract directly without incorporating ourselves, mostly not even then; and the "RIAA owns the music economy" bill more recently.

Incidentally, Microsoft NEVER looked very good to any other company for long, or to any informed user. If not an insider, a (temporary) ally, or an owner of their stock, you probably were worse off for their existence even though they were enlarging the marketplace possibly more rapidly than it otherwise would have developed.

Any computer on which I cannot create-and-run, fix-and-run, run-disconnected-from-any-networking, own-and-control-my own-data, buy, borrow,or-loan-software-or-data to/from any other party of my choice, do "open source" work --- is NOT an acceptable "Personal Computer"!

RE: Whats wrong with Microsoft