Useful and provocative discussion of Microsoft's plan to install its proprietary digital rights management (DRM) system on all Windows computers. This, according to the author, has the potential to give Mircosoft a stranglehold over its competitors. "Microsoft controls the certification. Thus, Microsoft also controls the revocation of these certificates, which means that Microsoft can remotely disable any software that depends on the certificate for communication. There are good reasons to disable certificates -- especially because they may be forged or used without authority to create unauthorized software. But revocation is a stunning power to put in the hands of a third party, especially if it's a competitor." Food for thought.
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