What is the problem I have with what MS is doing?

[ffreeloader]

This question was asked on another thread. Rather than extend that thread even longer than it already is I shall give links here to all that are interested.

If any of you don't know what MS is up to, and are willing to do some reading and thinking you will see where they are going, and how they are going about it. A person must study the issues at hand, or they will blindly agree to smooth sounding words, and there are a lot of smooth sounding, but very deceptive words, making the rounds in our societies today.

The articles at following links are not short blurbs. Many of them will take a half hour or an hour to read and digest. Some will take longer, but if you will thoughtfully read the following information you will come to understand what is coming in the world of computing, and how it will directly affect your every day life. These are not will 'o the wisp issues. They are real, and they are happening today.

You are not so much affected by these things running XP, but if you install Vista, look out. George Orwell's 1984 will no longer be complete fiction in your life.

Read Trusted Computing Frequently Asked Questions by Ross Anderson and take a look at his credentials. This was written in 2003. Take a look at what has already happened that this guy has predicted would happen. I will leave the reader to Google the information on what has been implemented on the new Intel and AMD chips. You won't find much from the manufacturers as they are very closed mouth about what they are putting in there, but there are some articles on the net that will give you some idea of what they have embedded there that will work with Vista and other drm enabled applications.

Read this article on a law Microsoft wrote for the State of Oklahoma found in the Oklahoma Gazette.

Read this thread from the dslreports.com security forum called "Microsoft Piracy check comes calling". It's 345 posts long so set aside some time for reading. You will see both pro and con opinions expressed here.

Read Big Microsoft Brother on EWeek written by Stephen J. Vaughn-Nichols.

Here is another article from the Electronic Frontier Foundation called Trusted Computing: Promise and Risk. For those of you who are not familiar with the EFF it is an organisation dedicated to defending personal freedoms in the world of computing.

Finally, read the article that I posted an excerpt from here on CF.

So, those of you who think MS is a decent, but misunderstood company, I'd like to hear your reaction to these things. Will you accept the explanations of a company that most of you already acknowledge as corrupt? If so why? Why will you choose to believe a corrupt corporation whom you know will do and say anything to make more money?