[rescue] Apple to ditch IBM, switch to Intel chips

[Patrick Giagnocavo]

On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 08:55:09PM -0400, Carl R. Friend wrote:
>    On Thu, 9 Jun 2005, Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:
> 
> > What about when your perfectly working machine is EOLd and remotely
> > disabled to keep you from "doing irreparable harm to the corporation"?
> > 
> > *THAT* is what worries me about DRM.
> 
>    That's why you don't run critical applications on machines that
> have D"R"M in hardware.  Pure and simple.  Only an idiot would.

I thought I read a case a few years ago where a programmer lost a
court case because he had set up a disable-this-program timeout for
software he sold to a company?  How is this different?

--Patrick