However, the underlying issue of Mr. Gates vision of the future to eliminate software copying has a fatal flaw. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. To thwart off hacking by individuals the anonymity of the internet will be lost and a new era of isolation and oppression of those that disagree with politically accepted ethics will emerge. For the most part hackers are a malicious group of outsider programmers but in their vengeful foolishness expose the potential for software manufacturers to gain mega bucks in gathering information about customers for sale to marketing associations.
Lets have the fox guard the hen house.
To relieve congestion on the internet, IPv6, better deployment of data at the server, larger cross country pipes that are smart enough not to route local packets are needed. That's where no one will remain anonymous. Thanks for your reply and comments. While Microsoft now employs one of NG's former principals, Henrik Frystyk Nielsen, it also employs one of its sharpest critics, Luca Cardelli, in the same division. While it is not clear what project, if any, Mr. Nielsen has been assigned to, I don't believe he was hired because of his work on the NG project.