[Lvlug] A Cost Analysis of Windows Vista Content Protection

[Theerasak Photha]

On 12/24/06, Faber J. Fedor <faber at linuxnj.com> wrote:
> I thought you hardware types might like to read this.
>
> http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_cost.txt
>
> I love the Executive Summary:
>
> "The Vista Content Protection specification could very well constitute
> the longest suicide note in history."

This is what happens when short-sighted, tunnel-blind fixation on
profit is allowed to prevail over good sense and decency.

Of course in the Quenta Silmarillion, Ungoliant the Unlight becomes so
ravenous she eventually eats herself...