If any code signing mechanism that MS implement either snip 3. Doesn't permit machine owners to decide what code they can allow to run on their machines. the software containing that mechanism will be deservedly still born

I'm not convinced of that; all it takes is marketing to create consumer acceptance, and Microsoft is a world leader in marketing.

Consider the average game console: they manufactuerer has certainly tried very hard to prevent anyone from running "unauthorized" software on those systems, and to a large degree, they've been successful.

The only reasons why the same sort of approach wouldn't work for a computer branded as a "workstation" rather than a "game console" are social rather than technical. If people can accept that game consoles only take software written by the manufactuer, they can probably be made to accept a similar idea for PCs as well.

Remember, Microsoft didn't make a fortune by being great at technology. They made a fortune, in part, by being great at marketing (and lots of other shady business practices, including antitrust violations). They've always been very good at manipulating social perceptions; their marketing for Windows 95 was so good that people who didn't even have computers were calling up the helplines asking how to use this great new product they'ld just purchased.

I'm not saying that Microsoft could pull it off; but if anyone can, it's them. Those guys could sell MS-Sand in the middle of a desert, and people would be lining up for miles around to buy it.

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Ytrew

In reply to Re^4: Future of Perl on Win32? by Anonymous Monk
in thread Future of Perl on Win32? by bowei_99

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