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[News] Software and Media: A Question of Ownership

The Birth of Restrictive Computing, Thanks Vista

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| The idea of owning software isn't what it used to be. In the past, you'd
| have to run out and buy the boxed version of the software that you
| were looking for or download and register a shareware application off
| of the Internet in order to gain possession of that program.
| 
| [...]
| 
| Consumers just don't like having restrictions on things that they pay
| good money for, and that's why DRM is so stinkin' annoying. I don't
| want to pay to download a song that I can't make full use of, and the
| same thing applies with an OS...
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http://www.osweekly.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2387&Itemid=449
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