From: Hal Finney (hal@finney.org)
Date: Thu Mar 13 2003 - 15:50:58 MST
Mike Wiik writes:
> Well, there's an interesting discussion right now on /. about office 11
> (aka 2003) and it seems the initial MS bashing is at least partly wrong
> when it comes to office 11's XML outputs. Why I don't know yet is how
> DRM is gonna intersect with Office 11 XML, seems to me if it's XML how
> can there be DRM?
I don't know much about the details of Office 11 and Microsoft's plans
for digital rights management. But certainly there is no contradiction
between using XML and keeping data protected. There is for example an
XML data encryption standard, in fact I am working on implementing that
right now.
I do find a lot of the MS-bashing rhetoric to be quite confused.
Some say that MS is going to lock in all its customers and force them
to keep upgrading or else cause all their old software to stop working.
Then they realize that the customers wouldn't stand for this and so they
say that MS is doomed. Nobody seems to appreciate the effects of feedback
and moderation. Everything is cast in extremes. The sky is falling,
and we're doomed. No, they're doomed. Well, somebody's doomed, anyway.
Hal
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