On 2/23/06, Bill Northcott <email@hidden> wrote:
> On 24/02/2006, at 7:03 AM, email@hidden wrote:
> > It makes me sad to not be back in the good old days (which
> > apparently were
> > even more good before I came into this picture) but time moves on,
> > relationships change and the way I work with Mac OS X has as well.
> > I've
> > really gone back to linux and FreeBSD and other far more esoteric
> > operating
> > systems for my OS experimentation fun. Just as Apple seemingly
> > left me
> > behind, I've moved on as well.
>
> I think this is bit like the time that Scott McNealy said something
> like "You have no privacy. Get over it."
Interesting comment. I said I've moved on. I'm not happy about the
result but I don't have an emotional investment in the Darwin sources
either.
What's any of that got to do with privacy? :) I've never believed in
the illusions of privacy, protection or security... I guess that's why
I'm not surprised when things actually do go horribly wrong due to
natural disasters, theft, etc.
Needless to say, up to here you and I are on the same page I think.
I'll express my regret for the loss of the source but I'm not gonna
have to change my pants over it.
> >
> > I still think it's a bit of a shame but Apple's a business and
> > needs to do
> > what they think is right for them and their stakeholders first.
>
> I have my suspicions that what is the core of all this is Hollywood
> and the record companies, who seem to have persuaded the US
> legislature to enact pernicious legislation the sole purpose of which
> is to greatly increase the profits of the large multi nationals that
> control entertainment. Going forward, if Apple want to continue to
> produce systems that handle vision and music, they will need to have
> DRM (Digital Restrictions Management) built into the core of the
> system including but not limited to the kernel. Of course they have
> some self-interest here: not wanting MacOS to run on ordinary PCs,
> although that could probably have been done at a higher level in
> proprietary code which has never been part of Darwin.
I want 5 Euros (The USD sucks) of whatever you're smoking :-)
>
> They are presumably not going to bother with this for the PPC
> hardware which is why there is no problem with those sources.
> However, to release the x86 sources, they need a methodology to strip
> any DRM related code out before release. This is presumably a non-
> trivial task. Hence the delay. Apple don't want to be seen as having
> leaked vital information for hackers.
>
> Ars Technica had a really good article this week berating the
> computer and home entertainment industries for putting up with all
> this strife from a content industry that is a fraction of their
> size. After all the hardware companies could club together and go
> into business making content. They could pay the artists more and
> release products free of mindless DRM junk. I reckon that might
> bring Hollywood into line.
>
> Bill Northcott
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