I suppose that in the way that the world looks at these things I'm "your mum".<div>I had a disaster a couple of months ago - my dog jumped onto my desk and pee-ed on my laptop.</div><div>So I had to buy a new laptop.</div>
<div>Which came with two trial versions pre-installed - Norton anti-virus which told me 30 days and gave me frequent reminders of when it would expire</div><div>And Office 10 - which didn't - it simply said it was a trial version.</div>
<div>I had a serious backlog of work to deal with so foolishly just used the Office "because it was there".</div><div>Every time I opened the program it reminded me that it was a trial version only.</div><div>Until the middle of a Sunday afternoon, while I was working on an urgent reference letter for someone, when the program suddenly went dead in my hands.</div>
<div>While I was still hitting the ceiling I wrote to Microsoft, and, among other things :-), asked for help to retrieve my intellectual property on my computer which was apparently locked by their software.</div><div>After I calmed down I downloaded Open Office and the world steadied again.</div>
<div>The next day my reply from Microsoft was instructions for buying their software - no other help.</div><div>Perhaps the message is - remember Confucius - if you're going to be raped just lie back and enjoy it!</div>
<div>Deirdre</div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 7 June 2012 08:47, Jeremy Malcolm <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jeremy@ciroap.org" target="_blank">jeremy@ciroap.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div><div class="im"><div>On 07/06/2012, at 8:21 PM, Daniel Kalchev wrote:</div><br><blockquote type="cite">
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I believe this is a bit misleading...<br>
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It is not Verisign, but Microsoft, who are trying to lock computer
hardware to their OS.</div></blockquote><div><br></div></div><div>But the money goes to Verisign, and they are Verisign certificates (issued underneath Microsoft's root). (Though as I have almost equal contempt for Verisign and Microsoft, I don't mind blaming either of them.) The reason why it is Verisign rather than any other CA is just because that's the one that Microsoft requires you to use to participate in this programme.</div>
<div class="im"><br><blockquote type="cite"><div text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF">For the
desktop, because of existing Windows versions that apparently do not
support this "secure boot" technology, this restriction is optional.
You will be able to switch it on or off in the BIOS.<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div></div><div>But, of course, only technical users will do that. It's just enough of a stumbling block to prevent ordinary computer users like your mum from trying any other operating system than Windows.</div>
<div class="im"><br><blockquote type="cite"><div text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF">None of this will impact Linux or other OS running on "PCs". And it
is not really anything to involve Verisign with.<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div></div><div>So I disagree with your conclusion.</div></div><div class="im"><br><div>
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