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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Paul Engel who wrote (46996)1/22/1999 7:03:00 PM
From: Ronald Ashkenazy  Read Replies (3) of 1571690
 
Paul and others on the thread,

Paraphrasing, Bill Gates recently said :
“Windows is very popular in China but no one pays for the software. That, however, is all going to change….”

I don't pretend to understand how this all works. But besides the stated financial transaction and document security reasons for this Pentium III hardware encryption technology, isn't there also a "whisper” reason which is to somehow control all software piracy by preventing installation on any machine unless a license has been purchased?

If so can you explain to us laymen how that might work?

And if this indeed is possible, I wonder if this would result in a dramatic drop in software prices as a result of significant increased revenues from all the previous pirating users. Probably not, huh?

Thanks in advance,
Ron
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