This has got to drive RMS nuts
Bill Sconce
sconce at in-spec-inc.com
Tue Mar 1 07:45:01 EST 2005
On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 22:13:31 -0500
Greg Rundlett <greg at freephile.com> wrote:
> I just noticed that Microsoft has used the acronym 'RMS' to stand for
> 'Rights Management Services'[1]. That has got to drive the real RMS
> nuts. Well, actually, I can't speak for him, but it kinda drives me
> nuts because it seems like they are using their marketing dollars in a
> thinly veiled personal affront to their nemesis.
Hm. RMS himself does this with "DRM"(*):
Of course, Hollywood and the record companies plan to use
treacherous computing for "DRM" (Digital Restrictions Management),
so that downloaded videos and music can be played only on one
specified computer.
-Bill
(*)
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/can-you-trust.html
P.S. The same paper has in one of its own postscripts the following.
One rule of propaganda is to first take over control of the language:
When Microsoft speaks of "security" in connection with
palladium, they do not mean what we normally mean by that
word: protecting your machine from things you do not want.
They mean protecting your copies of data on your machine
from access by you in ways others do not want. A slide in
the presentation listed several types of secrets palladium
could be used to keep, including "third party secrets" and
"user secrets"--but it put "user secrets" in quotation
marks, recognizing that this somewhat of an absurdity in
the context of palladium.
The presentation made frequent use of other terms that we
frequently associate with the context of security, such as
"attack", "malicious code", "spoofing", as well as "trusted".
None of them means what it normally means. "Attack" doesn't
mean someone trying to hurt you, it means you trying to copy
music. "Malicious code" means code installed by you to do
what someone else doesn't want your machine to do. "Spoofing"
doesn't mean someone fooling you, it means you fooling
palladium. And so on.
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