Re: [OS:N:] RFC for Free software consent based content mangement (was Reply to multiple posts at once)

James Michael DuPont <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.org.open-source-now
Message-ID <[email protected]>
--- Johnnie Peters <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-08-14 at 14:52, James Michael DuPont wrote:
> > You see, this is a consent based security system that requires no
> > freedoms are removed from the user. The content provider reserves
> the
> > right to refuse delivery of content to any other version of the
> > software, the client however has the freedom to modify this
> software
> > and submit it to content providers for certification.
> There is just one problem with this idea.  What company is going to
> take
> the time to certify every, or even any, of the software sent them. 
> It
> ain't going to happen.

Thats right. it is a big issue, and I cannot imagine it being done by
one company, but by a group. But the bigger issue is to prevent the
client software from LIEING about its validity. That might need some
hardware to provide the basic checksum values.

mike


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James Michael DuPont
http://introspector.sourceforge.net/

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