Intel to include DRM in new Pentium 4 series processors

[Graham]

On Friday 13 Sep 2002 3:43 am, Matthew Astley wrote:

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> This isn't such a disaster though. If I want to run my own programs,
> after the self-sign is disabled, then I can just buy a licence for my
> compiler.

Why should I have to buy any sort of licence to run programs?  Accepting=20
for one moment the assertion that I buy a licence, not the software,=20
when I pay for software, why should use of the software be down to=20
anybody else?  Why should the files on my computer (even with some=20
security measures) be subject to somebody else in a different country,=20
possibly of a different culture to me?

>
>
> Given that the hardware will probably be subsidised initially (as
> with the X-box) it only seems fair that people who want to get
> something extra out of the machine will have to pay back the
> difference.

Why?  The price is arrived at commercially (Will it sell for the price,=20
or is it overpriced for the market?).  I see no reason to pay back=20
anything to anybody for purchasing a machine.  The software system is=20
NOT sold with the computer, but you get a licence to use it.  Many=20
computer vendors are advertising free software (including the operating=20
system) and I contend that under those conditions, you are just buying=20
the hardware and you should be able to put any operating system - even=20
one you have written - on it.  If I want to get something extra out of=20
the machine I have bought, that is up to my expertise.
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Graham
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