[ale] OT: The wake-up call on Vista gets a little louder

[briarpatchkid at bellsouth.net (Jim Philips)]

I know this has already been on Digg and The Inquirer, but it's one of those 
things you can't stress enough. The paper linked below describes many of the 
changes brought about in Vista by Microsoft's DRM agreements with with 
content providers and hardware manufacturers. If it's as awful as it sounds, 
it means there will be no open source drivers from hardware manufacturers who 
buy into Microsoft's plan. Hopefully, members of the list will read it and 
comment. In my opinion, it makes open source hardware seem like a necessity.

http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_cost.txt