This strikes me as being part of the larger war on general purpose computing. Microsoft is saying that, in order to use your expensive device, you need another

This strikes me as being part of the larger war on general purpose computing. Microsoft is saying that, in order to use your expensive device, you need another expensive device, and you need to involve a third party as an arbiter. See Cory Doctorow's excellent 2011 keynote to the 28th Chaos Computer Club conference entitled "The Coming War on General Purpose Computing": https://boingboing.net/2011/12/27/the-coming-war-on-general-purp.html https://boingboing.net/2011/12/27/the-coming-war-on-general-... What do we do about this? I can (and do) run open-source software on my laptop, but what about my parents, kids, friends, et al? Some of them care, but can't be bothered. Others are oblivious.