[mdlug] Cracks in the Evil Empire

[Garry Stahl]

Rich Clark <rrclark at rrclark.net> wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Jun 2007, Joseph Vartanian wrote:
>   
>> Just to get you to maybe believe what I'm saying, think about
>> this...Why would they need 6 years to develop this OS if all they did
>> was to add 3D effect to the GUI and some DRM?  I'm not defending (or
>> bashing) Vista...I'm just pointing out that it's not Windows XP 3D
>> Edition like most people seem to think.
>>     
>
> Ask me to believe in Santa Claus and the Man in the Moon at the same time, 
> will you? The problem lies in too few eyeballs on too much code. They 
> still rely on backwards compatibility with ancient applications, so they 
> couldn't have strayed too far from the original XP code base. Otherwise, 
> proof, please?
>   

But you CAN'T!!  The source is closed.  Black boxes, nothing but black
boxes and thanks to Tinylimp lawyers buying law you are not allowed to
take them apart. 

Ergo, Tinylimp can make all the claims about how fresh and new the whole
thing is and it cannot be verified, period.  They could claim the code
was debugged by being passed through the digestive tracts of llamas
(instead of the usual male cattle), and you could neither confirm or
deny it.

Yes, they added some features, they added nifty and spiffy.  As to how
new any of it is?  No one without a gag order slapped down on them can
tell.  So they can't tell.

I'm willing the bet that the whole reason for the delays in Vista
release was the DRM.  It cannot work, they tried they really tried, but
in the end it cannot work.  However Tinylimp is so eager to suck the
RIAA and MIAA that they delayed the product trying to get it to work.

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