From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 18 Dec 2001 15:46:57 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 18 Dec 2001 15:46:43 -0500 Received: from neon-gw-l3.transmeta.com ([63.209.4.196]:48649 "EHLO neon-gw.transmeta.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 18 Dec 2001 15:45:36 -0500 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: "H. Peter Anvin" Subject: Re: [OT] DRM OS Date: 18 Dec 2001 12:45:26 -0800 Organization: Transmeta Corporation, Santa Clara CA Message-ID: <9vo9t6$j46$1@cesium.transmeta.com> In-Reply-To: <20011218121034.B23308@vitelus.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Disclaimer: Not speaking for Transmeta in any way, shape, or form. Copyright: Copyright 2001 H. Peter Anvin - All Rights Reserved Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Followup to: By author: Dave Jones In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > Amazing, just a few days since the Sklyarov release, and > already people are forgetting this is a very real problem. > Who's forgetting? The scary part is that corporate fascism is basically the political reality in the U.S. (who is pushing very hard to export it to the rest of the world, for obvious reasons) today. Note that SSSCA failed not because of any freedom concerns, but because Microsoft and Intel didn't want the gov't to tell them what to do. I don't say this lightly. However, I really think that the U.S. no longer is classifiable as a democracy, but rather as a plutocracy. -hpa -- at work, in private! "Unix gives you enough rope to shoot yourself in the foot." http://www.zytor.com/~hpa/puzzle.txt