] More and more, it seems that the entertainment content ] businesses, including Microsoft, want to make sure no ] culture can be offered anywhere in the world by anyone ] except them and only by means of their one-way paid ] pipeline. They can't achieve that goal without killing ] free/open software. Of course, they also would have to ] shut down the openness of the internet. I begin to ] suspect they may hypocritically use "security" concerns ] to do so, and the Wall Street Journal [sub req'd] reports ] they are already asking the goverment to establish ] standards for security in software: None of these things are happening in a vacuum ... the folks on Groklaw are being a little alarmist here but not outrageously so. |