From: "Geo" 

"Mike '/m'"  wrote in message
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> Just wait until they lock *your* PC down with DRM.   Then the fun really
> begins.

So now that the Intel cpu's are part of the DRM equation, just how do you
figure we are going to manage to avoid this nonsense?

You do know what's coming don't you? It's going to end up you buy a PC and
you can't run anything but what they put on it. So if it comes with Windows
you are stuck with windows or nothing. It's just a matter of time, closed
systems are closed systems, give up all the freedoms of a multipurpose
machine called a PC, the next generation is going to be fixed purpose.

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/cmp/20050819/tc_cmp/169400189

Personally I think all this insanity is going to do nothing but create one
hell of an underground hardware market.

Geo.

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