[mdlug] Vista DRM hurts Linux?

[Aaron Kulkis]

Ingles, Raymond wrote:
>> From: Michael Rudas (computer)
> 
>> "Linux users will suffer much more from hardware cost
>> increases.  Strict open source advocates will not be
>> able to use any new hardware because open source
>> drivers will not be available.  Microsoft will not
>> allow the hardware manufacturers to publish details of
>> how their hardware works.  If they do, Microsoft will
>> issue a Vista fatwa disabling their products."
> 
>  We'll see if the DRM regime envisioned for Vista can be enforced.
> Imagine the reaction from Microsoft customers that their hardware
> is suddenly 'de-supported' even though they personally did nothing
> wrong...

I smell dozens of class-action lawsuits on the horizon, the
end result being that the MS EULA being ruled to be toothless
in all important respects (i.e. No, you can't sell a product with
advertising claiming that it does all these great things, and
then attach a EULA saying that the product is not fit to do
anything, as a way of denying legal and financial responsibility
for product defects; denial of basic consumer rights -- you
cannnot sign away your rights... for example, if you hire
someone to kill you, the contract is NOT legally binding --
no clause of any contract can legally allow one party to
commit crimes against the other, no matter how eagerly both
parties are to commit to the contract.)