Re: Windows XP

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From: Guy Thornley
Subject: Re: Windows XP
Date: 00:11 on 07 Jul 2006

> It's more of an advertisement for their driver "certification"
> process.  It's a message to driver developers:  "pay us a boatload of
> money for your driver to be certified, or we'll make it look like your
> software is shonky so people will go buy hardware from someone else".

Personally, I suspect something slightly more malevolent: content
protection. I will *not* be surprised if, sometime in the future, you will
not be able to use copy-protected content (you know, all that protected WMA
stuff, HD-DVD, etc) unless all the drivers in the driver chain are
"certified".

Why? So it is much harder to make a driver that spits out the raw
unencrypted (or whatever) content.

- Guy

There's stuff above here

Matt McLeod 13:07 on 06 Jul 2006
- A. Pagaltzis 15:26 on 06 Jul 2006
  - David Cantrell 15:52 on 06 Jul 2006
    - too deep to show
- Aaron J. Grier 18:12 on 06 Jul 2006
  - Jarkko Hietaniemi 18:20 on 06 Jul 2006
- Guy Thornley 00:11 on 07 Jul 2006
  - jrodman 00:28 on 07 Jul 2006
    - too deep to show

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