Longest Suicide Note in History?

This factual, clearly written cost analysis of Vista's new content protection laws ("laws" isn't quite strong enough) concludes that hardware made to be Vista compliant will necessarily be much more expensive, slower, and far less reliable. Oh, and by the way, so obscured that no open-source OS will ever again see a new driver.

All to make absolutely sure you never see an unauthorized frame of HD or Blu-ray "premium content".

Glad the priorities are straight. Read it and weep.

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



P.S. Oh yes, if you use an Intel Mac or even a 386-based Sun or Linux box, you'll still have to use this deliberately crippled hardware.

Commentary on this on Slashdot and other places:

http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=36570
http://it.slashdot.org/it/06/12/25/2034238.shtml