I was reading the ‘major comments’ on the US v MS settlement were put up online Thursday. One pretty cool thing, sitting among the comments by megacorps like Sun, gov’t organizations like the US Senate, and public citizens like Ralph Nader, is a comment by Dan Kegel‘s (LULA). Cool.
Of all this, what sticks out for me about the proposed settlement is section III.J where it says that none of this applies to security or copyright related issues. Hmm, like AOL patching it’s AIM security and well, any of the ridiculous stuff related with the DMCA. Trustworthy Computing? Doesn’t that involve trusting the company and people selling you the software? Related: this month’s Crypto-gram talks about MS, and culls some links.