[microsound] [ot] treacherous computing - must read!

[Kim Cascone <kim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

a very enlightening and informative read...it is yet another reason to 
adopt a FOSS model early so the corporations have a harder time locking 
us all into their ecosystem...

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/tcpa-faq.html

> People believed that the GPL made it impossible for a company to come 
> along and steal code that was the result of community effort. This 
> helped make people willing to give up their spare time to write free 
> software for the communal benefit. But TC changes that. Once the 
> majority of PCs on the market are TC-enabled, the GPL won't work as 
> intended. The benefit for Microsoft is not that this will destroy free 
> software directly. The point is this: once people realise that even 
> GPL'led software can be hijacked for commercial purposes, idealistic 
> young programmers will be much less motivated to write free software.


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