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   From: Joe LaVigne    
   Newsgroups: alt.os.linux.ubuntu   
   Subject: Re: Problems after installing Ubuntu (fairly long)   
   Date: 26 Feb 2007 03:07:17 GMT   
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   On Sun, 25 Feb 2007 17:06:49 +0000, elaich wrote:   
      
   > dgk  wrote in    
   > news:h6v1u2dbgh04aj57r5p2tjbntis2tjm4v2@4ax.com:   
   >    
   >> All except the DRM crap.    
   >    
   > That's it, and the rumors that once Vista is well entrenched, M$ plans to    
   > try to use the DMCA to force hardware manufacturers to make hardware that    
   > will be "Vista compatible" that is, hardware that will only run on Vista,    
   > and nothing else, not even older versions of Windows. THAT is how they    
   > intend to kill Linux. Somone who so much as writes a driver for any other    
   > OS will be prosecuted under the DMCA. Sure, we can keep using our old    
   > hardware, which will eventually become obsolete and break down.   
   >   
      
   I am not sure that this would fly.  It would fly fully in the face of the   
   previous anti-trust judgment against them.  If they try it, you can bet   
   your ass that they will be in Federal court within hours of sending out   
   the new DMCA...   
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