[olug] Fw: [sansug] More MS Silliness?

[Timothy G. O'Brien]

Their best approach is:

- mandatory hardware (first an additional chip, then integrated into the CPU)
- mandatory TCPA approved OS & applications
- legislate both above

Read: open source as we know it will be illegal.

A superb presentation on Saturday at DEFCON put the fear in me on this topic!! 

Links:
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/tcpa-faq.html
http://www.trustedcomputing.org


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Message: 3
   Subject: Re: [olug] Fw: [sansug] More MS Silliness?
   From: "Robert A. Jacobs" <r.a.jacobs at cox.net>
   To: Olug <olug at olug.org>
   Date: 12 Aug 2002 08:53:27 -0500
   Reply-To: olug at olug.org

   On Mon, 2002-08-12 at 07:33, roger schmeits wrote:
   > I am on another linux listserv and I posted the same link. Interesting
   > enough no one commented about.  I get the general feeling that everyone
   > is holding the their breath on this.  No bodying is say a whole lot.
   > 
   Keep in mind:
    
    1. That Cringely column is a month and a half old
    2. Palladium has been talked to death in other venues
    3. Palladium is, presently, vaporware 
    4. In a free market economy, how do you combat it?

   Legislation is a possibility in either direction ("Citizen, you WILL use
   Palladium" or "Microsoft, you WILL NOT implement Palladium") but is that
   really the best approach?

   Right now, the best approach is to spread the word, encourage others to
   try Linux (hype game support -- unfortunately, GAMES are the things
   keeping Windows partitions alive) and vote with your dollars.

   Rob


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