Well, you've got Linux now, make sure you keep the disks. One of these days you're going to want them, when Windows becomes pay-ware per day, or per month, or whatever. And MS will have the opportunity to remove it's usefullness from your hard-drive when you don't pay up. Oh, yes, that will come within the next 18 months or less. I suspect that they will get around firewalls, somehow. You will probably have to give them a way in when you install Windows 2003. If they don't have it already. --wa2say At 06:38 12/01/2002 +0000, alan@ibgames.com wrote:
On 30 Nov 2002 at 9:10, Steve D wrote:
Hello all--
Apologies for this (hopefully very brief) off-topic thread. I'm hoping that a few references may be made, by the knowledgeable people on this list, to a few good sources of thought and conjecture regarding the following--
Although I presume (personally hope) other countries will pursue better alternatives, as a U.S. citizen and after reading a little about the Trusted Computing Platform Alliance, Microsoft's Palladium initiative, the "Fritz" chip and the cooperative responses by the U.S. government so far to Microsoft and to the entertainment industry (regarding "digital rights management") I have become somewhat worried about the future of Linux, and computing in general, in the U.S.
Could someone refer to one or more good Internet sources where one may be able to read the comments and ideas of those who really know and understand this subject? Thank you.
Steve D. New Mexico, US
The best place to get information about this is Ross Anderson's TCPA/Palladium FAQ, which is at:
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/tcpa-faq.html
alan
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