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- From: Russell McOrmond <russell@flora.ca>
- To: Bernard Lang <Bernard.Lang@inria.fr>
- Cc: Seth Johnson <seth.johnson@realmeasures.dyndns.org>, <C-FIT_Community@realmeasures.dyndns.org>, <C-FIT_Release_Community@realmeasures.dyndns.org>, <fairuse-discuss@nyfairuse.org>, <DMCA_Discuss@lists.microshaft.org>, <DMCA-Activists@gnu.org>, <pho@onehouse.com>, Patent forum <patents@aful.org>
- Subject: Re: [Patents] Microsoft: Now Possible to Implement Locked Down Email
- Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 23:20:52 -0400 (EDT)
On Tue, 21 Oct 2003, Bernard Lang wrote:
> we will no longer be able to read email from people running a
> microsoft mailer, since the DRM will not work on our machines.
> Good excuse to stop wasting time on these.
I already bounce Microsoft Outlook attachments
<http://www.flora.ca/no-outlook.shtml>, and I suspect that these "trusted
computing" attachments will be even easier to detect and bounce at the
mail server via MIMEDefang and others.
A separate Microsoft Internet will attempt to form, but given what the
open/collaborative/interoperable Internet did to Compuserve, the early
versions of MSN, and other proprietary networks I think I can predict what
will happen.
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Russell McOrmond, Internet Consultant: <http://www.flora.ca/>
Governance software that controls ICT, automates government policy, or
electronically counts votes, shouldn't be bought any more than
politicians should be bought. -- http://www.flora.ca/russell/
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