[Linux-aus] Microsoft Office 2003 lock-in via DRM

[Chris Samuel]

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On Wednesday 03 Sep 2003 10:52 am, David Cartwright wrote:

> So much for those who trumpeted Microsoft's new XML openness in Office
> 2003!

I suspect there are at least 3 reasons behind this:

1) They want to force people to buy/upgrade to Office 2003.

2) They want to force people to buy/upgrade to WIndows Server 2003.

3) It will force people to shell out for Windows Rights Management Services.
   (Unless that comes with Server 2003).

Tada - aim to increase 2 revenue streams (which were slowing down, or in the 
case of Server 2K3 almost non-existant) and introduce a new one.

Also, by offloading the DRM onto a Windows server, you can probably make it 
much harder to produce a reverse engineered implementation, and even if it 
was done, it could be illegal (or FUD'd as such) under the DMCA.

Oh, for even more revenue you could then introduce a client access license for 
the Rights Management Services.

There's probably more, but hey, it's late..

Chris
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 Chris Samuel  :  http://csamuel.org/  :  Melbourne, VIC

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