I was feeling pretty smug about my distance from Microsoft and its surrounding messes since i switched to Linux, and then a friend gave me this link:
http://www.againsttcpa.com/tcpa-faq-en.html It basically outlines the "Trusted Computing Platform Alliance," which seems to make MS's related/subset "Palladium"/"NGSCB" look miniscule. Personally, I want to stay as far away from this as possible!! Tons of companies such as IBM, Intel, Dell, Gateway, AMD, Hewlett-Packard, of course Microsoft, and on and on and on, are all apparently in on this...
...and then i noticed that nowhere did it mention Apple, Mac, or anything related... I've never particularly liked Apple or it's computers (personal preference, no offense
), but with so many major hardware companies involved in TCPA/NGSCB/whatever it seems that leaving Windows does not necessarily mean you are leaving Microsoft and its buddies... does anyone know where Apple stands in all this?? I like PC's, but if this is the way it's gonna be (i.e., if worst comes to worst) and if Apple does not accept this system, then the pro-TCPA companies are going to lose a customer, and I doubt I'll be the only one :rolleyes:
