Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3254 mails)

[Ben Rosenberg <ben@xxxxxxxxx>]

* Alex Daniloff (alex@xxxxxxxxxxxx) [020924 12:06]:
->Haven't you noticed this right on the signature page -> 
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->"Eligible signatories: Any PC user who has a Windows OS" 
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->I can't sign it 'cause I don't have any winblows.:)
->What does this Petition have to do with Linux?
->Let me ask anoher question.
->Will implementation of Palladium really prevent user 
->from installing and using Linux on his/her PC?

It won't. But thing such as banking, online purchasing ..etc..etc. would
be come more difficult because I am VERY sure they would have some
server side query to see if you've got this piece of crap. And if the
Open Source community made a fake out to fool these servers I'm sure
someone would make it a crime and people would go to Jail. It would be
up to RH, SuSE..or IBM to build this out for Linux and to pay for
anything that needed paying for. Do google search for the debate over
being tracked by the Intel CPU number that people had a few years ago.
It was quite heated. I don't know about you but I don't want to run
this hardware. I don't think hardware should have to make up for crappy
OS design and ability to patch in a timely manner. All the tools to
produce good software..secure software are there. But they would cause
MS to go back to the drawing board on their OS which is something they
just don't want to do. 

If this actually goes through. I may stop using computers. It's
media companies policing what we view and Microsoft absolving themselves
of the obligation of writing good, secure softare.

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"Competing with Linux is like nailing jello to a tree."
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