On Fri, 20 Sep 2002 11:54:55 -0400
Damon Register
Advanced Micro Devices will include Microsoft's Palladium "trusted" -- meaning Microsoft- approved software only -- support in its next generation of chips, according to published reports.
Most disturbing. I wonder how that will affect the Linux world?
It's amazing that the whole world has to alter it's chip designs, just so Microsoft can run it's poorly designed executables. I wouldn't worry. There will always be chips made without that crap in it. They will probably sell to the non_US market, and will be in high demand, after everyone figures out that this "new security feature" somehow comprimises your privacy (ala NSA). Microsoft has led the computer worl into 1 boondoggle after another. Why would this one be any different? -- use Perl; #powerful programmable prestidigitation