Re: Design principles and ethics

[Tom Bachmann]

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Jonathan S. Shapiro wrote:
> However, Marcus proposes in effect that *every* parent should be
> able to read the state of its children.

So either there have to be programs without parents (the users shell),
or i think it is a very bad idea.

> If a trusted program like the
> one that you describe is introduced, it becomes possible to use it for
> DRM.
> 

I do not understand this. There would be one such program per user (her
shell) that is not even trusted by other users. This program only acts
on the behalf of the user.
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