Author Topic: Oh dear god...  (Read 592 times)

slvadcjelli42

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Oh dear god...
« on: 5 August 2003, 03:17 »
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:

slvadcjelli42

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« Reply #1 on: 5 August 2003, 03:21 »
Stupid of me not to see that thread below, "Does MAC support DRM/Palladium?" That answers part of my question, but not all of it, of course, as Palladium is Microsoft's effort, which sort of fits under this TCPA thing, apparently....

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« Reply #2 on: 5 August 2003, 08:54 »
I don't think that the palladium chips will run without the software backing them up - so Linux / BSD will be fine.  Even if it does there are always modding solutions.  ;)
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slvadcjelli42

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« Reply #3 on: 5 August 2003, 17:46 »
Ohh, ok. Well, that's good to hear  

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« Reply #4 on: 5 August 2003, 23:48 »
Wow thats a pretty scarey link ... if your a microsoft user  
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