[AktiviX] HP users cry foul at looming death of the open PC

Paul Mobbs mobbsey at gn.apc.org
Fri Jan 16 12:24:11 UTC 2004


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Subject: [Politech] HP users cry foul at looming death of the open PC
Date: Thursday 15 January 2004 14:26
From: Declan McCullagh <declan at well.com>
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/35/34848.html

HP users cry foul at death of the open PC
By Ashlee Vance in Chicago
Posted: 13/01/2004 at 17:41 GMT
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At her Keynote address for the CES conference recently, Carly Fiorina
declared that all  HP systems would be designed to protect DRM.

As HP is a major supplier of systems to corporations, I can see this could
be a selling point.  The notion, however, to make all consumer systems
compliant is a step beyond.  In the past business platforms and
"SOHO/personal user" systems had different mainboards, but almost everythin
else is shared and from Industry Standard manufactrers.

Will they require CD/DVD burners follow a new DRM standard?  and how long
until there is a software fix? and will it cripple use of old stuff?

The dialog is beginning.  Should we all go quietly into the showers?






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