Windows Vista Ed Bott On 'Vista Cost Analysis' By Gutmann

TeMerc · 2007/08/16

Ed Bott has some rebuttal commentary and some questions for Mr. Peter Gutmann, who penned a Vista cost analysis, which I posted about in December.
The F-U-D over Vista DRM just won’t die

Over the Christmas and New Year’s holidays at the end of last year and the beginning of this year, in between two-hour daily workouts with a snow shovel, I read a remarkable paper called A Cost Analysis of Windows Vista Content Protection. And I wasn’t the only one. According to Technorati, the paper has so far been linked by more than 250 blogs, and Google News finds more than 100 citations to the paper in mainstream online publications.

Too bad it’s just so wrong about so many things.

In fact, I read the whole paper - all 10,224 words of it - seven times that week, and lost count of the number of exaggerations, half-truths, unsupported statements, and flat-out errors in it. It’s a big steaming pile of F-U-D, with just enough truth sprinkled on top to make it seem like there’s some substance underneath it.

So why has it gotten so much circulation? Simple. Author Peter Gutmann managed to push not one but two hot buttons simultaneously, mixing an extreme anti-Microsoft rant with an extreme anti-DRM rant.
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Emphasis added by me.

Busting the F-U-D about Vista’s DRM

Be sure and read the commentary on his blog, the other nite when I read it, there were over a 125 replies!

Also see Gutmanns reply to Eds blog entry:

If youâ€™re waiting for Peter Gutmann to reply to my questions or those of my ZDNet colleague George Ou about his confusing, contradictory, and inflammatory Windows Vista "research," Iâ€™ve got some bad news. A note posted by the New Zealand encryption researcher sometime in the last 24 hours (it wasn’t there at 5:15AM PDT yesterday) says fuggedaboutit:

Unlike George, ZDNet isn’t paying me to do this stuff and I really have better things to do with my time so Iâ€™m going to pretty much ignore it, I just added this note in case people had seen one of his rants and were wondering what the story was
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