MS Patent for DRM OS

[Martin Keegan]

On Thu, 13 Dec 2001, Shaun wrote:

> The current MS driver signing mechanism doesn't get invoked unless
> you install the drivers using the INF file mechanism. If you just
> copy the driver to the drivers directory and edit the registry to
> install your driver, it doesn't need to be signed and the OS won't
> complain at all.

Granted.

However, you have no legal guarantee that this will continue to be the
case. There are economic and political reasons militating against such a
development (namely that a single organisation should control what
programmes may be executable on the generality of home computing devices),
but it's by no means inconceivable. 

Mk