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Re: Windows kernel security
said by rotty97  :Microsoft still seem to believe they have the smartest programmers in the world, but the reality is that smarter people are born every year. Your contention is that people are getting progressively smarter? I don't think so.
Microsoft, DRM makers are really living in the past and need to give up on this DRM thing and make a better product so that people WANT to buy it. My impression is that's what Microsoft is doing. They figure that people WANT to buy 'media convergence' platforms, and before the content can exists, some sort of protection scheme is required.
That is, I think that Microsoft is ideologically neutral on this. Why would they WANT to build a content protection scheme? The answer is that a Windows platform with DRM appears to be more attractive to content providers, and that a Windows platform with content is more attractive to end-users.
(As a side-note, observe that Linus Torvalds is not opposed in principle to having DRM components in Linux. His motivation is similar: ubiquity of platform (though in his case that's not motivated in turn by profit)).
Do not construe this response as being in favour of DRM. I merely wish to suggest that if you think Microsoft isn't doing this with an eye to the market, you're wrong. You're simply considering a rather small subset of the end-user base.
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