[jaguar]

First thing that came to mind is gee, i'm glad i've got my debian cds here that'll past 20 years easily. Until they kill open source its not impossible becuase DRM requires hardware and OS.

Second is social, people have a pretty high shit-swallowing tollerence but i've got a feeling this is gonna be tested bigtime. Most people do *not* pay for windows, and Office, when the subscription system becomes the norm alot of home users are going to start kicking up a shit and looking round a bit more. Same aaplies with mp3s etc, most people my age *do not* buy many cds, yet we have +1000 mp3s. Lock the shit out of it and people will start saying well gee, since they're treating us like shit, we'll start looking elsewhere. THe majority of the population will not swallow +$1000 for Office/Windows every couple of years. Particuarly home users which is where linux needs a bigger foothold.

Third, nothing is unhackable, and most things have been hacked. Just look at the amount og keygens and crack out there, people you decompile frigging exes and wallow though megs of asm code ripping out well designed security measures, these people are tough to beat to say the least. *every* secure system put forward so far has had the shit hacked out of it (literally).

Fourth that came to mind is that AOL-Time-Warner does not like msft at all, heck they're not supporting XP on thier ISPs now, its corperate war. ICQ now has file sharing, when people start putting mp3s on that(they already have) whats the RIAA gonna do, shut down ICQ? or even AOL? Be funny to watch eh? Infighting could keep this from getting off the ground, getting all these guys to agree is not easy, they're all equally ruthless and lacking in ethics, its like streetfighting, cept with a few trillion dollars floating around.